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…
Vegetarian
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In a moment everything has changed. Spring is gone, like Grandma. While the garden was at its best, giving clouds of white flowers and miles of new grass to be cut, I…
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Winter
Freaky-version of Torta della Nonna, a recipe from the book “Naturally Vegetarian” by Hortus!
My dear friend Valentina (Hortus!) wrote a book, and after a year of hard work, research, intuitions, doubts, shared inspirations and support behind the scenes, today I can flip through its pages…
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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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Sometimes I feel very lucky because I was born in this part of the world! A geographically diverse land full of beauty and history and so many precious works of art, each…
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|Link to Valentina’s post & The bowls you see are from The Freaky Raku | It’s a sunny morning and I am walking across the small roads of my village. The sun…
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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…