Christmas in Venice: Cotognata (recipe)
If you’ve never cooked with quinces, be prepared for your whole house to be filled with the most delicious, sweet, fragrance, somewhere between soft fruit and citrus with notes of fresh apples.
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Christmas in Venice: Mostarda di Peretti (recipe)
One of the things that every one of the nonnas I asked said was a must for Christmas was mostarda. This is a kind of conserve of fruit in sweet and spicy syrup.
Venice in the movies: Summertime (1955)
Most of Summertime was filmed in and around the Piazza di San Marco and Campo San Barnaba, where Brazzi’s shop was located. The building is still a shop, but today sells toys rather than red Murano glass goblets, but curiously, never seems to be open.
Venetian word of the day: vénto
As you might expect, being located in the centre of the water, Venice can suffer quite a lot from vénto, which is the Venetian word for wind. In the hot summers, when the city almost suffocates from heat, Venetians repair to the zattere, the quay on the northern side of the Giudecca canal, to enjoy …
San Martin (recipe)
On 11 November the Venetians celebrate the feast of San Martin. The festival includes traditional ‘trick or treating’ as well as a delicious sweet. Learn how to make it here.
Torta salata di melanzana: aubergine tart (recipe)
It’s no secret that I love aubergines, or eggplants as some of you call them, or … well for argument’s sake let’s call them melanzane, the Italian word. So, it’s no secret that I love melanzane and would probably eat them every day, if I could. When cooked properly, they have the same mouth-puckering strength as a …
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