- Learn what to write _about_ - Learn _how_ to say it - Remember to have fun! ## Unlikely Associations Select three words from a list and explain how they form a group. **Heat, Cream, and Basil** belong together because they're part of a recipe: The Italian take on Cobb-Salad – In a sauce pan roast prosciutto until golden and crispy, then add the cream to make the sauce. Add fresh lemon juice instead of vinegar and salt and pepper to taste. Use a leafier salad than iceberg salad, cut it in half, pour the warm bacon-cream sauce over it and dress with free Basil leaves! This is a recipe from a rebellious young italian chef who decided to embrace American recipes instead of scoffing at them because they're not italian. He had the fortune to have spent many summers at his relative's house in New Jersey where he got to eat many truly american staples including pancakes for breakfast, barbeque in the summer and Cobb Salad at the local diner owned by his uncle. To many Italians, American cuisine is stupid and below them since the food of Italy is the food of God. The young chef uses typical local ingredients to create dishes that are at once local and at the same time transcontinental. He lives and cooks with his wife Esmeralda at his small restaurant in Florence.