Before Elizabeth David and Joanne Harris, before collecting cookbooks, memoirs of passionate cooks and any oth

Chiara has been my pen pal in the last 17 years, we started writing long and passionate letters with shar

Its name is schiacciata (flat bread), but it is anything but flat. It's the typical Easter sweet bread of my a

Yesterday I was sitting at the table with my grandma, we were eating a wild herb omelette and talking about th

A crust of bread and a glass of wine gathered around a Tuscan country table ten traveller friends in a ma

Welcome back Spring, we've been missing you lately. Since it's your day, we cannot start anywhere else but fro

We were in the kitchen in London, it was one of those rare mornings when the sun peeped ou

I come back home with something new after every cooking class: a smart idea on how to use the leftovers, a war

Barley, hazelnut and cocoa biscuits for a relaxing coffee break. I thought that once I had become a full time

Before marrying your grandfather and going on our honeymoon in the South of Italy, in the Basilicata region, t

For me, living on the border between the provinces of Siena and Florence, driving south in Tuscany means goin

I like San Gimignano in the early morning, when it is still not crowded with tourists, when you see the local

Hello from London! Today I'm sitting in a cosy kitchen in London, the sky as you can easily imagine 

Mum has a sweet tooth for whipped cream. Sweet tooth may be simplistic to describe her relationship with whipp

I wish I had enough words to thank you for your comments, e-mails, laughs and moved tears on my last post. I k

My ghost of Christmas past would bring a Tom and Jerry sweatsuit, a big yellow bag which contained the gifts t

They came home gift-wrapped as only Santa's elves would be able to do: two kilos of intense Caf

We are all talking about Christmas lunches, dinners, gourmet gifts to impress people we love, chocolate aftern

My granddad Remigio used to walk with a cane, more for habit than necessity, and often waved it like Charlie C

I received a gift. I was living one of those moments in your life when you need to find a goal, something to c

During the first years of the university I used to frequent a pub in Siena, where Saturday after Saturday I st

Imagine a winter Sunday morning, cold and crisp, with the sun shining bright and a day of rest and v

I am passionate about the stories that tell a cross-section of life from the unusual and alienating 

Serves 4, from 12 to 16 crepes depending on the size

A bunch of cheese such as Asiago, Pecorino Romano, Parmesan cheese and Stilton are combined with the baked pul

Two recipes for an easy-peasy pungent and rich mustard, either walnut or fresh herbs, make a gourmet gift for

There are rules in my family, rules that must be followed if you don't want to be banned from the kitchen: bel

Since I was just a little girl I was intrigued by a dish that for me, accustomed to the common names of rabbit

Summer, time of preserves. Once again the protagonists are the tomatoes, in a simple version, pure: the p

Thanks for your fabulous feedback on the pomarola sauce post. It opened an interesting debate on Italian food

A dish of pasta, a good deal of intense red and glossy tomato sauce, a generous sprinkling of freshly grated P

When a month ago I took the first breath of the evening fresh air and looked at my four weeks of holidays unwi

And here we are, we've come to the last and sweet part of our menu, the dessert, the end of our midsummer nigh

When I was a little girl and I was on holidays, those long summer holidays marked by a slow pace of read&

This is not a dish for vegetarians, though it is one of the dishes that I most enjoyed making, let alone eatin

It's Monday, and I'm at home. I woke up slowly, very slowly, I had leftover dessert for breakfast, and I read