Healthy Diet
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Pear Tea with Osmanthus Tea
This pear tea with osmanthus is a delightful Asian dessert and quick to make at home. The boiled soft pear...Read Now -
Italian Table Talk: Pane con Pomodoro
So much of why we love food – eating it, making it, talking about it – is because it is emotionally attached to a memory...Read Now -
A lesson in Bruschetta
One of the world’s simplest of pleasures – fresh bread and tomato – is also one of the most...Read Now -
100 year old apricot jam
This is a 123 year old recipe for apricot jam. It comes from my battered and worn pocket sized edition of Pellegrino...Read Now -
Broad bean pesto
I’m on a broad bean kick lately. The beans we planted five months ago have grown outgrageously...Read Now -
Tripe: the not so favourite ingredient
Tripe. The very word itself usually causes a scrunched-up face on the person whose ears have been subjected to the offensive word...Read Now -
Frittata di spaghetti
There’s a lot to be said about leftover– thrifty, comforting, time-saving and, in many cases, even more delicious than ...Read Now -
Egg yolk ravioli (and a white truffle experience)
One of the highlights of 2019 was hosting the White Truffle and Wine Culinary Retreat here in Tuscany...Read Now -
Nonna Lina’s Pomarola
I never met Nonna Lina, my husband’s grandmother. She passed away six weeks before I met him, coincidentally on...Read Now -
Borage and ricotta crepes
I had seen it before, those fuzzy, furry leaves and stalks, with the pretty, star-pointed purple flowers, but up until that ...Read Now