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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Today we’ll hit the second episode of our Tuscan cooking session.
It is worth saying though that “tuscan cooking” it is not really an appropriate way to define it..or better..them!!
I’ll try to explain.. if you’ll ask my granny: ‘oma let’s do a tuscan cooking column…What could we prepare? ..why not make a delicious trippa? She would [...]

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