Walks in the countryside are a constant in my life. I wear my walking shoes and I go out, and what is a familiar landscape turns into something different in front of my eyes, season after season. It changes when I go out alone with loud music from my headphones to dream or plan, or [...]

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Hello from London. Four lines just to tell you that the book translation goes on, though slowly, I leave rarely the house – consider me crazy, if you want – but believe me, working with four other crazy girls here beside me makes it more fun. I’m also baking a lot, because after a day [...]

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I am now an expert in stealing all those special moments just for myself, I try to set them in the day just like jewels, make them valuable and intense, though fleeting. I am almost over with the book, recipes are done – tested, photographed and written – and the Italian version is completed, now [...]

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If you live in the countryside, you’d better not be in a hurry when you leave your house in any September morning. Any other time you find yourself stuck behind a tractor bursting of ripe grapes,  carrying its buzzing load to the closer cellar. Arm yourself with patience and get mesmerized by the dull sound of [...]

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My relationship with fashion is very peculiar, it began with a charcoal gray little dress I should have worn for an event in the Escada store in Florence a few years ago in one of my previous lives, immediately after the University, when I was an intern in a PR agency that dealt with events [...]

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