Back on the blog after more than three weeks, after a summer where I managed to pop up here just for a few posts and recipes. It has been a long, hot summer. Apparently warm summer days are not bound to end anytime soon, even though I am already craving…
I've been on a diet every day since I was nineteen, which basically means I've been hungry for a decade. Julia Roberts, "Notting Hill" I could say the same, though the results are clearly different. The diet issue is a recurrent theme of my blog, as it is of my life.…
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…
I spent the whole weekend working at home but I made it, I finished the book translation. When last night I was stuck in the traffic on the freeway clogged up by the renewal works I was happy, jammed, lit by the red shades of the cars stop lights, but happy. I was done. A…
In the first ten months of my new life I have learned so much. I've learned from Francesca and Food Editore how to make a book form scratches, hanging drafts everywhere, I've learned that you cannot act as food photographer - if you are not a professional food photographer -…
Here London. Or at least I hope, since today is Wednesday, I am still at home in my pajamas, I'm writing this post that will go online on Friday morning, while I would probably wrap myself even tighter in the blue blanket at Sarka's house, in a house that is…
One foot in the summer time, with its flip-flops and light dresses, and one foot in autumn with pumpkin, colorful scarves and that woolen cardigan I would love so much. September is special, it has the pleasant traits of summer without its sultry excesses and the beauty of autumn, back to…
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…
Preserving is also one of my favourite way of procrastinating. When I am busy with deadlines and projects, this is when I try to steal time to preserve.