No recipes today, just a little bla bla bla, it is meant to be ironic, absolutely not offense to those who are sincerely in need of a diet.....

The precious mushroom is this one . I don't remember when was the last time I ate one, and fresh! Possibly 20 years???? In NZ I can find...

I don’t have a mortar and pestle in this temporary kitchen. I never realized how much I relied on it until now, but improvising can be fun…w...

To Love Bread is to Love Life I never throw away bread, I use it to make a variety of dishes, and in particular canederli, big ...

Last week we went to Turin , I like to specify that we did not go to see the Sindone! We went for the Turin International Book Fair, Il Sal...

Pilgrimage for a Twilight fan Photos by Alessandra Zecchini© San Gimignano I have to say th...

I am away a lot these days, so I don't have many opportunities to blog, sorry. I will try to be more active next week, in any case, here...

During our week in Tuscany we stayed with my childhood friend Erika and her lovely family outside Prato. We had wonderful weather and the...