There’s an old Italian song I’ve always loved to sing in a whisper every time I think about friends gathering to chat around a table. Soft and playful, with a slight vein of melancholy, Quattro amici al bar starts with the description of four friends sitting around a bar table, dealing with everyday themes, hopes [...]

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I clearly remember my past life’s Sundays: a well known lump in my throat, the Monday unavoidability and the gloomy return to an office that was getting more suffocating every day. Now Sunday has a different mood. If I think about it, if I pause and think about my life, I’m happy. It is not one [...]

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I will never get tired of saying that the Tuscan cuisine does not exist. It is now generally acknowledged that it’s not possibile to talk about Italian food, because we are fragmented into a thousand bell towers, each with its specific customs and culinary traditions. But even in a region like Tuscany it is difficult [...]

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What happened behind those closed doors? Why is so calm and quiet by the pool? This was the proverbial calm before the storm. Behind those quaint blue wooden doors there were 4 – at times 5 – people in trouble to prepare in a day and half a picnic wedding dinner for forty French guests [...]

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We’re real friends. We stand up for real food.  We live in different countries, though, so we tried to figure out how to make our part for the first-ever global Food Revolution Day, (I have goose bumps, first.ever.global. we can make a difference, people!)  that in this Saturday, May 19, is celebrated throughout the world: schools, homes, [...]

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