[The lovely cuttingboard you’ll see is from Twelvedots, a young Croatian label run by couple Jelena and Nikola. Dishes and bowls are TheFreakyRaku pieces available in our SHOP.] I was born in…
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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…
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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…
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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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Summer
Spaghetti with Caramelised Cherry Tomatoes & Anchovies Crumble | Slow Living and Being Inspired by Simple Things
Inspiration. But what exactly is inspiration? Never in my life have I ever asked this question so often as during this past year. Being inspired seems really an important issue. Inspiration seems…
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Summer
After the Tornado | Two recipes and a new sense of gratitude | Alternative Pesto & Stuffed Cherry Tomatoes + Bulgur With Herbs
What has recently happened here on the Riviera del Brenta, a large and wonderful area only a few kilometers from Venice, has deeply shaken me. An exceptional and devastating tornado has passed…