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If you like traditional, seasonal food, the Tuscan countryside
and a genuine approach to life, we’re the right people!
I’m Giulia Scarpaleggia, a Tuscan born and bred food writer, cookbook author, podcaster, and cooking class instructor. I am a proud home cook: I learned to cook from my grandmother and my mother, and, as a cookbook lover, from cookbooks. I live in the countryside in our family house with my husband Tommaso, our 3-year-old daughter Livia, and two rescue dogs, Noa and Teo. I love collecting cookbooks, the English language, long walks, writing, baking sourdough bread, watching crime series, listening to podcasts, and ‘80s music.
In 2009, I founded my blog JulsKitchen.com to collect and share my family recipes and stories, both in Italian and in English. In 2019, Saveur magazine named it the best food culture blog.
Now I share my best food writing, random thoughts, personal stories and researched recipes through our newsletter Letters from Tuscany on Substack, while the blog remains an online archive of free, tested, reliable recipes.
My food is seasonal, inspired by Italian regional cuisine, and vegetable-forward. You can find inspiration for your weeknight meals or to celebrate gatherings with family and friends.
I work with my husband/photographer Tommaso Galli. He is half from Tuscany and half from Salento, Puglia. He works mostly behind the scenes, taking photos of the dishes we prepare (and eating them, too!), videos, editing the podcast, and handling all the technical aspects of our business. He loves rustici from Salento, photography, Lego, and day-trips.
When Tommaso moved in, we decided to restore an old building in our premises to create the Juls’ Kitchen Studio, a space where we cook, take photos, film video recipes. This is where we cook, eat, organize workshops and cooking classes, dinners with family and friends.
Now Juls’ Kitchen is our family project, a diary of our life in Tuscany, a collection of authentic recipes inspired by tradition and seasonality, our favourite corner where I love to share a good story with you.
Our work has been featured by The Simple Things, The Foodie Bugle, JamieOliver.com, The Huffington Post, Great British Chefs, Great Italian Chefs, Manfrotto Imagine and more, BBC Good Food, Corriere della Sera.
Reserve your best FOOD EXPERIENCE in Tuscany
Choosing a class with us means escaping for a day to the slower-paced countryside, far from the charming buzz of big, touristic cities. Slow down and be ready to live a day as a local: hearty homemade food is included. Discover the experiences we offer: market to table cooking class, 3-day seasonal masterclass… and a lot of fun!
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If you’re planning your visit to Tuscany, sign up for our newsletter so you’ll start hungering for new recipes, traditions, places to visit, best gelato to try and much more.
Letters from Tuscany is our own independent publication. This newsletter is where most of our writing and recipes will live from now on. Letters from Tuscany is an anchor to Italy, to the Italian table and our loud conviviality, the voice of a friend in the kitchen.
Our Cookbooks
My love for cooking and the curiosity for traditional family recipes led me to write my first cookbook, Le ricette di mia nonna – My grandma’s recipes, a cookery book in Italian and in English on the food we daily eat at home.
In 2012 Food Editore published my second cookbook, I love Toscana, which has been translated in English, Dutch, Polish, and Taiwanese Mandarin. Two more cookbooks followed I love Toscana: in 2014 Cucina da chef con ingredienti low cost, published with BUR, and in 2015 Cucina naturale: Frutta, published with Gribaudo.
My fifth cookbook, La Cucina dei Mercati in Toscana, was published with Guido Tommasi Editore on February 2017. The English version, From the Markets of Tuscany: A cookbook, followed in 2018.
In 2023 our sixth cookbook Cucina Povera was on sale everywhere books are sold, published by Artisan Books.
