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…
Pasta
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Fall, Travel
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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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Winter
Bigoli in salsa: a Venetian timeless recipe for a dish of whole wheat spaghetti with anchovy sauce
Whenever I am asked about typical Venetian recipes, my list starts from “bigoli in salsa“. Perhaps to me, this dish of bigoli is the pasta dish par excellence, the first I think…
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I don’t know what silence is, I said, while I am floating in the void. It looks like Paradise – however you call it – the place where we go afterwards, doesn’t…
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Summer
Passatelli, a recipe from the heart of Romagna + A two day workshop with Valentina announcement!
The blank paper sheet I have before me is flashing in all its annoying brightness. It had been waiting me for days… weeks, I should say. Sometimes I feel like I can’t…
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[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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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…