First Courses

I have always considered Orecchiette Pugliesi one of the most difficult shapes to make. In the small towns of Puglia it is common to see women sitting outside their front

I know that what I do, what I value, in the myriad of great problems of the world, is of no importance. The girls in Iran, the imprisoned journalists, the

I saw it, I bought it. I thought: I will cook it the way my father would have cooked it. Alive: all crustaceans must be. I had to taste it.

Today Cacciucco Livornese in the Portuguese Cataplana. More fusion than that.. The cataplana is a Portuguese pot, made of tinned copper. It is about two matching hemispheres. In Portugal it

One of my first memories about cooking is my grandmother making ravioli on Christmas eve. After dinner, when the rest of the family members had already gone to the church

A scent, a flavor has the sudden capability to bring us somewhere or some-when and even to make us to dive for an instant  into a specific  mood.My great grandmother,

Walking in Florence during the lock down has caused in me a double emotion, although the empty city was chilling and a bit dismal. Staring at the monuments, at the pretty palaces and

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.

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.