"Among the dishes required by tradition there are quite a fews that can be missed or replaced, as the stuffed

Let's be honest: there's no dish like a roast chicken to celebrate a family get together. I am always slightly

If I was not stuck by the snow in Pisa airport last Friday, which for me that I'm writing is actually tomorrow

On Friday I published the post on I love Toscana and I've been overwhelmed by your love and care here on the b

The books moved in. At the beginning I meant to bring just one box to have the feeling of having something min

There were six girls dressed in their best clothes, flared skirts, high heels, nice scarves to protect their n

Crespelle with ricotta and spinach are a typical dish of the Florentine tradition: they look like thin pancake

I'm slowly coming back to my (almost) normal life, after months of hard work. Coming back to the normal life t

I met Sarah a few years ago, when Emiko introduced me to her agriturismo, Poggio Alloro, a few kilometres past

Here we go, these are the most controversial moments in our calendar. Do you celebrate Halloween today or do w

In the last week I have spent more hours than usual thinking, thanks to many travels by train and by car: firs

I spent the whole weekend working at home but I made it, I finished the book translation. When last night

I cheated. I so wanted to bake a bread for the 7th World Bread Day. I even refreshed my sourdough starter for

In the first ten months of my new life I have learned so much. I've learned from Francesca and Food Editore ho

Hello from London. Four lines just to tell you that the book translation goes on, though slowly, I leave rarel

Here London. Or at least I hope, since today is Wednesday, I am still at home in my pajamas, I'm writing this

If I were to go on a space mission and I had to eat the last meal on Earth before a diet of colorful pills, I

If you live in the countryside, you'd better not be in a hurry when you leave your house in any September morn

One foot in the summer time, with its flip-flops and light dresses, and one foot in autumn with pumpkin, color

Sometimes I do not understand myself. The more I am gasping to deliver the book on time, the more I want to ca

I am here, then I disappear, I peep out on Twitter and Facebook, then I disappear again. I have just a few day

When I was attending the middle school my Italian teacher asked us to write a self-analysis booklet, in which

We need some refreshment in this awkward summer. Hot as ever, it reminds the summer of a few decades ago, wh

When I first planted my rhubarb, I placed a few pebbles under its roots in order to give it a well drained soi

I have a recurring daydream: I leave my house, close the red door behind me and I step in a green scenery cram

I tend to make lists of things, books, songs and movies to keep a precarious order in my mind. Your top 5 roma

This year, the first year of my new life as a self-employed food addict, I discovered Winter and Spring as new

My relationship with fashion is very peculiar, it began with a charcoal gray little dress I should have worn f

In Tuscany we love eating fresh pecorino with fava beans during or May Day picnics. We add tiny drops of golde

When even green tea makes my heart beat like in horse race, when I climb the stairs to my bedroom four times i

I will never get tired of saying that the Tuscan cuisine does not exist. It is now generally acknowledged that

We're real friends. We stand up for real food.  We live in different countries, though, so we tried to figure

Happiness is baking a banana bread and having a thick slice of it during the golden hour I am a Tuscan girl bu

Mayonnaise like hollandaise is a process of forcing egg yolks to absorb a fatty substance, oil in this case, a

If you happen to be born in the inland Tuscany, you do not have that much confidence with fish. Or at least th