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First Courses Recipes and Stories

CACIO E PEPE: THE MOST DIFFICULT PASTA IN THE WORLD

The simplest and the most difficult. The web is full of videos, of chefs and housewives who teach them how to make them: everyone has their trick, their own secret.
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Events & Special Programs

THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE OF ROSELLE

I did not expect such beauty, such a dimension and not even to experience this emotion. To tell the truth, I didn’t even expect this sun, which peeped out overwhelmingly
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Events & Special Programs

SONNINO CASTLE: WELCOME WITH CONFIDENCE

Coming up from Baccaiano, along the Provincial Volterrana road towards Montespertoli, the Sonnino Castle with its thirteenth-century tower stands out on the hill to our left. We continue to the
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Desserts Recipes and Stories

CRYSTALLIZED FLOWERS

Since I don’t have a garden where I can grow flowers without the use of pesticides, I go to pick them in the countryside. I picked mauve flowers, with lilac
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Cuisine & Philosophy

WHEN ART GIVES SHAPE TO EMOTIONS: THE ARTIST ISABELLA FAZZO

I can pride myself on being a great friend of hers. Isabella Fazzo is an artist with a predilection for ceramics, its forms, its composition. She makes her own blends.
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First Courses Recipes and Stories

ROLL WITH POPPY FLOWERS

It starts here: a spring day and the joy of poppies. I try again to make pasta with flowers “inside”. I would like to get palettes with colors and shapes.
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First Courses Recipes and Stories

FIFTH NEWSLETTER: MORE NEWS FROM US

Dear Friends, This is the fifth of the series of newsletters that we are sending every two weeks and…. I have a question today: Do you know how to twirl spaghetti?
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Love for Food

AS SOFT AS CLOUDS

The Ricciarelli are small delicacies with the shape of an almond.Their paste is made of almond, sugar and egg white.They are typical from Siena, the Tuscan city, although they seen
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Giglio Island

A CARTOGRAPHIC PROJECT FOR THE “LILY”, GIGLIO ISLAND

A Cartographic Project for the beautiful and the useful. Giglio Island is changing. In spite of what happens to the rest of the Earth, the “Lily” is changing for the
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Marcella Ansaldo

Native of Giglio Island, Marcella has founded and directs the school GiglioCooking in Florence, with simpathy, passion and energy.