The August heatwave brought eventually some time for resting, for sleeping in a shaded room in the afternoon, for a weekend in the mountains foraging wild raspberries and blueberries, for personal projects and reflections and lazy dinners cooked by my mum, where I was just sharing leftovers from classes. It brought…
If you are subscribed to our Newsletter, you will already know that I have chosen these three months of summer as a season of change. It took just a few weeks to understand that this really will be a time of evolution and new awareness. A newly rediscovered instinct pushes…
If someone invites you to go to a sagra, stop whatever you're doing, cancel other commitments, dress up comfortably and bring along a mosquito repellent. The sagra, a town food festival, is the heart of the true Italian food scene. The sagre fill up parking lots, sports facilities and squares throughout the year, but mainly…
They usually say that when you are having fun, time flies. Or they also say that when you're very busy time flows just as quickly. Well, either I have never had so much fun or my tendency to say yes to everything - work projects and personal commitments - has…
When I was a child my secret place to play was the shed, a high and spacious room where they used to park the cars, where there was the door to the cellar and some shelves all for me where I could store neatly my pots and pans, toys and…
Extra virgin olive oil, or just olive oil. Hard to say what it is for me, what it means for our gastronomic tradition without falling into an elegy or writing a mini encyclopedia, with cross-references and footnotes. Perhaps, more simply, I would say that olive oil is for me daily…
