Lately I have often lunch with Grandma, we live so close that we enjoy the time we spend together eating and talking. If I have to work on some recipes for the blog I bring downstairs the last experiment, often cold after the photos. She warms up the food, always on the lowest flame, because [...]

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My summer is slow and drowsy, I spend my time in the kitchen, cooking and baking early Autumn recipes for the September issue of Dolci Tentazioni (the only refreshing aspect of this baking galore is the thought of the moment you’ll savour them in a few months from now, with a cup of tea, in a [...]

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Mayonnaise like hollandaise is a process of forcing egg yolks to absorb a fatty substance, oil in this case, and to hold it in thick and creamy suspension. - Julia Child, Mastering the Art of French Cooking – 1961 In my family we have always bought mayonnaise for only two reasons: to make summer roasted peppers [...]

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Yesterday I was sitting at the table with my grandma, we were eating a wild herb omelette and talking about the times gone by, my plans for the future and my grandma’s memories of when she was young. You need time to do make country food, that’s the reason they stopped cooking it. Herbs must [...]

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A crust of bread and a glass of wine gathered around a Tuscan country table ten traveller friends in a mad spring day, enlightened by a warm sun and made vivacious by an unexpected downpour. The official excuse? An unusual flavour match. I just noticed it, within less than a week I stepped from celebrating the good aspects [...]

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