I am an easy to be persuaded woman, you just need a bunch of flowers and I’m sold. In this case the flowers were the pretty blossoms of my chives and the refined seducer a potato salad that has become in the course of a cloudy May morning my favourite potato salad, the same I [...]

Posted in Side Dishes, Spring, Vegetarian Recipes 7 Comments »

Hi, my name is Giulia, I have a problem and I would love to share it with you: I lack the sense of measure. I believe and I do hope it is due to my motto you have to be generous in the kitchen. It happens often during my cooking classes, and my friends are [...]

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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 »

Easter came and along with it came the perfect time to renew the pretty coat, or the black patent leather shoes, or the lace blouse, everything so Eighty. This would happen not a hundred year ago, but when I was a child. About twenty years ago there was still the idea that Easter came along [...]

Posted in Meat, Spring 6 Comments »

I clearly remember my past life’s Sundays: a well known lump in my throat, the Monday unavoidability and the gloomy return to an office that was getting more suffocating every day. Now Sunday has a different mood. If I think about it, if I pause and think about my life, I’m happy. It is not one [...]

Posted in Fish, Spring, Summer 8 Comments »