Palau de la Musica catalana Summer is coming, and when I look back on last year holidays, I can’t stop dreaming about my first solo holidays with my sister: three days in Barcelona. We loved everything, especially the huge market La Boqueria. We tried everything, from smoothies to chorizo pizza, to fresh fruit salads. We [...]

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My grandfather Remigio used to live all alone in San Gimignano. He brought up mum and aunt Silvana all by himself. He was a man of old times, a mason, but he was also very good in cooking. He loved dried cod and herring: he used to fry herring in his tiny kitchen and you [...]

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If you want something to raise, don’t call me. Me and yeast it’s like Superman and kriptonite. I’ve always been frightened by recipes asking for something to raise, until several people told me to face the experience with calm and serenity. And so did I. The chance was Mother’s Day some weeks ago. My mum [...]

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This is a typical cake from Sardinian, made with fresh ricotta cheese. You can use sheep ricotta cheese as required by the recipe, but I tried it with goat ricotta cheese and it has become a very peculiar cake, with a strong and intense flavour, but really delicious. It is a cake for dummies: easy [...]

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Today we’ll hit the second episode of our Tuscan cooking session. It is worth saying though that “tuscan cooking” it is not really an appropriate way to define it..or better..them!! I’ll try to explain.. if you’ll ask my granny: ‘oma let’s do a tuscan cooking column…What could we prepare? ..why not make a delicious trippa? [...]

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