Many of the olive trees scattered on the hills of a valley in Maremma in Tuscany, are over hundred years old. I know this place very well and I can move around…
Fall
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Fall
Brief Guidelines For Making Pasta At Home: Buckwheat Tagliatelle with Parsley Pesto and Poplar Mushrooms
Making pasta at home is just one of those grannies’ things. Italian grannies, that is. Most Italians, in fact, think about their grandmother as someone capable of performing cooking miracles. Over the…
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When you open the fridge in Dorina’s kitchen, it’s possible to find some strange things. Once, I nearly filled my sandwich with some rabbit glue because I had mistaken it for mustard!…
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In one way or another, or with the excuse to give me some jam jars, my loving granny is always able to draw me over to her overfilled but tidy shelves in…
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When I saw him passing near my kitchen window, he was still wearing his colour stained clothes. His fingers were dirty with black paint and he had his “studio” shoes on, the…
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Some old photo albums left on dusty bookshelves seem to me like a time-space window for stepping into another dimension. A portal to go to another universe, as Walter Bishop would say…