I made these cranberry and vanilla rolls for two reasons. The first one is due to my need to do something phys

In how many ways can you eat your dessert? You can stuff your mouth with chocolates and pralines, tiny puff pa

It might be one of the first signs that I am getting old. I am changed, I am not the same person as before, I

We have had the first taste of summer, a faded blue sky, a scorching sun and a restoring shadow. Two days brav

I've been on a diet every day since I was nineteen, which basically means I've been hungry for a decade. Julia

By nine o' clock in the morning I had already kneaded a bread, made with a good local and organic flour. It wa

While I cook for the new book, while I write recipes and headnotes, while I take pictures perched on a chair a

At the end of a meal you stand up from your chair satisfied, often with a bigger smile than before, and begin

When you drive to teach a cookery course your mind is focused on the goal, you go over again your recipes, you

What does summer taste like? I can think of several flavours, changing like the sea waves. Lately I would say

I got off at the right stop of the metro, I walked for a while along that unknown street in Milan and I starte

Grandma uses a deep pot, always the same. I have a memory of that pot since the first time I tasted her stuffe

We have a saying in Italy: Natale con i tuoi, Pasqua con chi vuoi, that can be roughly translated into stay w

The kitchen has always been my refuge. I still remember too clearly when I used to come back home tired or dem

It took me some time to fall in love with crostate. I had my loves at first sight, my temporary flirts and my

I experience an antique feeling of satisfaction when I manage to use leftovers. When I am able to reduce waste

If it is true that the way to a man's heart is through his stomach, it is also true that we must be careful to

I like thick soups. I want to spread my bean soup onto thin toasted slices of bread and then drizzle them with

Five years ago I wrote the first post. Five years ago I still lived at home with my parents, in the attic at t

I'm sitting at a table at the Arnold Coffee in Florence, one of those bars inspired by the American Starbucks

Since they are potatoes, do not laugh at the pompous name, because as you will see when you try it, it is not

A few days ago, while I was working here in my kitchen on the second or third day of a new diet - read diet as

I had promised myself to make it a weekly feature. Words written on the sand: my last recipe of the Healthy ev

Yesterday it was a perfect day for some efficient spring cleaning, even if we are still at the beginning of wi

I find it hard to write an objective review of Profumo di biscotti, written by my friend Rossella, because I

Today I'm here just for a quick dessert oriented post, it's time to share with you the recipe for The Great Fo

Grandma would visit my granddad relatives in Melfi, a mid mountain town in Basilicata, in the South of Italy,

Eating on the couch has always had the allure of forbidden, the exception granted only on unique days. Winter

This will be the first Christmas post, and it might be the first of many more Christmas related posts, believe

Finally the cold temperatures reached this piece of Tuscan land, they came along glorious shining and freezing

C like Colour, C like Contagious... and I'm not talking about one of those annoying seasonal sicknesses, bu

For many summers, until I turned ten, in August I would take a train with my grandfather and my grandmother fr

I told you so many times how I greeted reluctantly the past summer. I was in love with its free and playful mo

I told you so many times how I greeted reluctantly the past summer. I was in love with its free and playful mo

When I was a child my secret place to play was the shed, a high and spacious room where they used to park the

For a few months I posted every week a healthy recipe on Benessere.com: these recipes were based on seasonal f