Happiness is baking a banana bread and having a thick slice of it during the golden hour I am a Tuscan girl but I do not eat pappa al pomodoro every day, even though I could easily survive on that for a week. I try to blog mainly about Tuscan food, because it’s what I [...]

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It happens often: when girls grow up, they start to resemble to their mothers, finding themselves saying or doing exactly those things that until a few years earlier they could not put up with. I realized this unspoken truth when, still a teenager, I took my sister for the first time to the kindergarten, my blonde [...]

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Chiara has been my pen pal in the last 17 years, we started writing long and passionate letters with sharp colourful drawing pens and a round teenager handwriting, now we exchange quick messages and e-mails, to play along with the family busy schedule. In seventeen years we exchanged a thousands of letters, e-mails and some photos, [...]

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Its name is schiacciata (flat bread), but it is anything but flat. It’s the typical Easter sweet bread of my areas, popular in most of the Tuscan region with slightly different names and small changes that could allow an expert eye to attribute undoubtedly the schiacciata to the Sienese area, the Elsa valley or the [...]

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We were in the kitchen in London, it was one of those rare mornings when the sun peeped out. We were sitting on the edge of our stools still wrapped in sleep and heavy sweaters. I had made a light breakfast, nothing special to me, although I secretly nourished the faith in the flattering power of butter and sugar caramelized on a high flame. You have to post it! What, this recipe? a stewed apple? You [...]

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