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…
Fall
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Fall, Travel
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Fall
On 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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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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Fall
Two 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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Fall
Venetian 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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Come, Grandmother, and sit next to me in my garden. We shall have breakfast under the vine, and we shall see the morning light glow upon the leaves that bear your name,…
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Here’s how our story begins: with a drill, a real one, with the iron tip, the noise and everything. The spinning drill, connected to an iron plate, turned the fickle and flaky…
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Fall
Gluten-Free Corona beans and pumpkin cupcakes to celebrate new adventures and the earth’s hidden treasures
How is it possible that the news always arrive altogether, I wonder. While I look at the water-flooded garden, the bamboo trees have already turned yellow and the heavy rain makes them…
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Some time ago Valeria invited me to dinner. While we enjoyed delicious homemade seafood dishes (directly from the Chioggia fish market!) we inevitably ended up talking about the countless things we love…
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Since I was a child, I have viewed a sea of olive trees as if they were a natural extention of my beautiful window, from my house in Tuscany. An edgeless balcony…