We are more than halfway through the Lenten season towards Easter, and even in Catholic Italy that calls for a break. Tomorrow, there is the Fiera Mezza Quaresima in our local town of Sansepolcro when people forget about having given up things for a couple of days and enjoy a little food and drink.
Although I live in Tuscany, I was born far to the north in the city of Venice. I am very proud of this fact, and that for most of my life I have been greeted with admiring and impressed faces when I answer the question ‘Where in Italy are you from?’ According to tradition, the …
There’s nothing more interesting than having a nose around someone else’s kitchen, and since 2010 my fellow blogger Celia from Fig Jam and Lime Cordial has been allowing you to do just that through a feature called In My Kitchen.
Today is the birthday of Michelangelo Buonarotti, born here in the village of Caprese Michelangelo in 1475. So famous was he, that the village officially added his to their name in the early twentieth century. In his honour, I am publishing a reproduction of the Doni Tondo, a depiction of the Holy Family currently in the …
Buon Compleanno Maestro: Happy Birthday Michelangelo! Read More »
Panna cotta needs no introduction, unless you’ve been on the moon for the past fifteen years. Like the other Italian dessert, panna cotta has a relatively short history, it being generally accepted that it has its origins in early twentieth-century Piemonte. However, that still makes it more than twice as old as tiramisù, which is …
Panna cotta allo zenzero e arancia rossa (recipe) Read More »
Lunch was performed in the traditional three acts: the ‘primo’ consisting of pasta or risotto, the ‘secondo’ of meat or fish, and then the dessert. Preceded by a prologue of ‘antipasti’, the curtain came down after an epilogue of coffee, espresso of course, cappuccino strictly reserved for breakfast or elevenses. — From ‘How we Found our Home.’
