We say ‘come after the smoke of candles’ (refferred to the Mass) when you arrive very late on things that need to be made. It is a common say perfect for this occasion, since I’m posting my pictures of  Taste almost two weeks from that day, a really fun and interesting day, [...]

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I have already told you that my big, noisy, lively and warm family comes – as regards my father branch – from Lucania, in the South of Italy: Grandpa Biagio, in fact, was born in Rapolla (PZ) and raised in Melfi, where still live many uncles, aunts and cousins. A branch of the family lives [...]

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My aim today was to make a first course: choose a traditional recipe and make something new out of it. I decided to choose as starting point the most classic meat sauce, changing somthing on the way! First of all, the kind of meat: not veal nor pork, rabbit instead – white, light, Tuscan. Then, [...]

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Good Morning and Happy Monday! The colour of my weekend was red! Red like my hair (I dyed my hair and now they’re like Julia Robert’s hair, a wonderful Tiziano Autumnal colour), red as my brand new car, a flaming red Kia Picanto, red as my bank account for the next 5 years…
Let’s hit now [...]

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If Grandma were a dish, she would have been home made pasta, ravioli, actually!
Since I was young, Grandma used to make home made fresh pasta on holidays , she closed herself in her kitchen and she came out soon later with a wooden plate, lined with paper, dusted with semolina and full of spinach ravioli [...]

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