Chiara made her first cake with her father when she was a little girl. Renzo, her father, started to work very young for the famous Biscottificio Mattei in Prato and passed to Chiara the secrets of a lifetime. Now she jealously keeps the recipes and use them to make her amazing biscuits and cakes. SheContinue reading
How nice to invite friends for dinner, see them happy while they are eating the food I cooked for them. Food has this magical power that while we are eating around a table laughing and talking about our lives or any other subject, we are more relaxed and let down our guard. That is theContinue reading
Damiano Damiano works for an International Hotel chain which means that he travels around the world. Cooking at home for his family and friends is the way that Damiano relaxes. He is passionate about travelling, cooking healthy food and drinking good wine. Damiano showed me how to cook one of his Venetian fish recipes thatContinue reading
I adore the food that you make and eat right away and this is what you do when you make potato dumplings: you make them, cook them in boiling water and eat them. For Marinella this is the only way to have the perfect potato dumplings (in italian we call them “gnocchi di patate”). MarinellaContinue reading
Annalisa Annalisa De Luca lives in Tuscany, and for many years she has been living sustainably. She is renowned for her sourdough bread made with “mother dough” (also called sourdough or mother starter). Annalisa teaches her bread making techniques and a few weeks ago I attended one of her classes. In this class Annalisa taughtContinue reading
Adele Adele lives in the mountains with her family, a dog, some cats, and several other animals: chickens, turkeys, rabbits, and ducks. In the kitchen, she is really very good. I cannot say that I have tasted all her dishes, which are often meat-based –and of which I am not a great fan– yet weContinue reading
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