More about radicchio (and what it’s like to be pregnant in Turin)
If you were to ask one of the people who knows me best what I enjoy eating most I’m sure they’ll respond with the word insalata or salad. And by salad, I mean raw, simple…
Chocolate and hazelnut truffles: an edible Christmas gift idea
Sometimes your skills and your passions come together and sometimes in the most unexpected ways. In September 2017, I began offering cooking lessons (such as my Market-to-Table and Pasta-Making experiences with Bonappetour) to visitors to…
On preserving the taste of summer, two tomato recipes and a cookbook giveaway!
What can I say except that part of me doesn’t want summer, or rather, the fruit and vegetables that characterise it, to end? Mother nature would seem to agree with me too. There’s still plenty…
A New Country Kitchen and Two Plum Recipes to Celebrate
It’s TT’s birthday. Or, at least it was earlier in the week when she turned 3. We’re holding her party at the weekend instead, so all the people we’ve invited can come into the verdant…
Lessons and recipes from a retreat in the Tuscan countryside
‘No one who cooks, cooks alone. Even at her most solitary, a cook in the kitchen is surrounded by generations of cooks past, the advice and menus of cooks present, the wisdom of cookbook writers’….
Reflections on food-blogging, videos and a recipe for rabatòn alessandrini
If there’s one thing I have learnt since starting this blog a little over two years ago, it’s that food blogging is one big learning curve. There was the lesson in deciding what I actually…
Cucina Conversations: Croccante di mandorle, the perfect edible gift for an Italian Christmas
No matter what I do, Christmas always seems to arrive too quickly. And this year is no exception. At least this time, however, I can say I anticipated the onslaught of additional tasks and deadlines…
My Kitchen Shelf: Giuseppe Chioni’s Arte culinaria
After Italy’s defeat at Caporetto by the German and Austro-Hungarian armies in October 1917, over three hundred thousand Italian soldiers were taken prisoner. The Italian government and military forces, embarrassed by how easily the weaknesses…
My Kitchen Shelf: Pellegrino Artusi’s Science in the Kitchen and the Art of Eating Well
Ever since I got serious about researching Italian food, I’ve found that there’s a book that, well, refuses to be left to collect dust on my kitchen shelf – Pellegrino Artusi’s Science in the Kitchen…