Before Elizabeth David and Joanne Harris, before collecting cookbooks, memoirs of passionate cooks and any other book about food and the related world, before of all this there were two books that had unleashed persistent culinary fantasies that still come back to visit me. The first is a book of my childhood, one of those first [...]

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The fact is, I just can not stand my recorded voice. Everyone tells me that I have the very same voice as my mum, and actually they keep on mistaking us at the telephone, but I like mum’s voice, it’s sweet and it is the voice of my mum, how can I not like it! [...]

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Yet Emiko said it: don’t spread yourself too thin. Do not use all of your strength committing yourself into too many activities, otherwise at some point all your energy will slip out of your hand, scattering in thin streams and losing the usual sharp incisiveness. When someone knows you so well is rarely wrong, and in fact it happened. [...]

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Last week I made a guest post for Flipkey, a travel website whose blog features local secrets that travelers might not know about. I wrote about one of the most typical Tuscan fresh pasta, pici… do you want to have a look, or better, a taste? Go to Flipkey blog to discover other interesting and [...]

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Today I’m leaving for my holidays: a nineteenth-century train travel towards Paris, where I’ll spend 30 hours, just 30 little and lonely hours to enjoy la Ville Lumière, where I’ll be for the very first time! I have not a plan yet, though I have a long journey by train to read my guide and [...]

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