Amid rising energy costs, Italian cooks go old-school to save gas

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In this Tuscan town, some cooks are moving away from the stove to prepare meals in energy-saving cooking boxes, a tool lined with thick wool which their grandparents used during World War II.

Gloria Lucchesi cooks some local beans that she prepared using the cooking containers, on Nov. 12, in San Casciano dei Bagni, Italy.Gloria Lucchesi cooks some local beans that she prepared using the cooking containers, on Nov. 12, in San Casciano dei Bagni, Italy.SAN CASCIANO DEI BAGNI, Italy — Russia's invasion of Ukraine — and decision to throttle natural gas exports to Europe — has sent energy prices and utility bills higher.

Sheep graze on sloping pastures in the hilltops that surround this village. The animals are raised for meat, since their wool is poor quality. But Filo & Fibra, a nonprofit cooperative, has found a way to use the sheared fleece.Valerio Muscella for NPRGloria Lucchesi stands in the yard of her house, on Nov. 12, in San Casciano dei Bagni.— which means"thread and fiber" — invited NPR to her large home on the outskirts of town to demonstrate one of the cooking boxes it produces.

 

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Sounds flammable…

Sounds like the new green policies are making us go backwards.

Thermal cookers are a wonderful way to slow cook meals. They're available in a variety of sizes and really fairly inexpensive.

Pretty cool

Same method of using cooking boxes was widely used in England during WWII

Interesting.

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I was reading the first few books in the Recipes for Love and Murder mystery series, and the main character mentions using something similar in South Africa. I was intrigued.

Russia definitely made a lot of enemies with the invasion of Ukraine and constant shelling.

They don’t sound too fucking happy about it.

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