That priceless feeling of having really experienced a fulfilling time that you perceive after a trip is just one of the hundred reasons that often brings me to say YES to the…
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FallOn the beauty and restlessness of solitude + a layered walnut cake with Italian meringue & mascarpone frosting, figs, and salty caramel
I think I have become less tolerant. I cannot say why, if it is a matter of growth or rather an attitude that – from a certain point onwards – has been…
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Smells accompany us throughout the course of our life, often linking us to very specific memories. There is the incomparable, unique and special smell of home, welcoming us as an embrace every…
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I could tell you about a romantic dinner, among the violet flowers that tint the Lagoon at the beginning of Autumn. I could tell you how the last golden rays of sun…
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FallTwo Autumnal recipes with Amedeo Modigliani’s grapes & a nostalgic glimpse of the old Academy of Fine Arts of Venice
In the 1750s the Venetian Senate granted young people a room – a space – in the palace where the Magistrate of Flours was located, so that, under the guidance of the…
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FallVenetian aperitif | Tiziano, a cocktail inspired by the Master of color & some roasted grape cicchetti
The large, heavy wooden doors at the entrance of the Basilica creak a little. I have to push them hard to enter into the typical darkness of many Italian churches. My eyes…
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Summer, TravelAbout looking, an eulogy to slowness and a Dutch apple cake inspired by Flemish paintings
Recently I found myself giving some thought to data accumulation, in my case photos, ideas, recipes, notes of all kinds. The more my life becomes exciting and animated by new travels, adventures…
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The correspondence that Claude Monet kept for many years with his friends of the time, today known to us thanks to the numerous published collections, and which I read as a teenager…
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SpringGlimpses from an ancient world | Crostatine with homemade rose petal jam with Miranda’s roses
In my olfactory memory, the intense scent of some ancient varieties of roses is associated with secret Venice, that of the hidden gardens, those that you spy through the cracks of the…