My favourite country road stretches from my house into the nearby wood, shaded by four oak trees and speckled along the edges with flowers and herbs. Until a few years ago what attracted my attention were the closed buds of poppy, which I would pick up to guess the colour, and purple and yellow delicate [...]

Posted in Italian Table Talk, Soups, Spring 10 Comments »

In this first month of the year I took it easy, at leisure I guess. After the move and the breath of fresh air in the mountains I decided to take my time and follow my own rhythm.  At first I was afraid, I must admit it. I faced the first year as a freelancer – [...]

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  Pasta Del Verde asked us which is our secret in the kitchen. I’ve been wondering about that for a while, too, especially in these days when I am moving all my belongings into my new kitchen, organizing the shelves, the jars of flour with hand written labels, the boxes of pasta, honey and sugars [...]

Posted in Pasta, Tuscan Recipes, Winter 11 Comments »

I’ve done many different jobs before finding my place in the universe teaching cooking classes and writing recipes… I gave private lessons of Latin and Greek, I was an entertainer at children’s parties, an employee dealing with marketing and communications, an event organizer and even an interviewer at trade shows. Once I was even hired with [...]

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There were six girls dressed in their best clothes, flared skirts, high heels, nice scarves to protect their neat hair set, white blouses and pretty jumpers, red lipstick and even movie star sunglasses. They came home to a beautiful sunny morning in November. One of them, Virginia, was getting married and Francesca, a mutual friend, [...]

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