On my way to my annual Italian summer holiday, I had with me a copy of Stevie Parle’s book: ‘My Kitchen, food from near and far‘. I did not think much of a cookbook as a holiday read so I started flicking through the pages while on my flight. Two hours later, I was completely sold to Stevie’s approach to what is more than a cookbook. Is a travel book with food, is a recipe book with travel information, is…
Note: this post is over 5 years old On a mild December evening my entire family congregated for a special occasion, a 70th birthday party. Having planned this evening for a while, the choice of restaurant sort of surprised me. Around 30 minutes drive from our Napoli home, in the middle of nowhere in the (not particularly attractive) outskirts east of the city. My first thought was – what are we doing here? And, as we walked out of the…
Much to my husband’s displeasure, since moving to a more ‘City of London’ office, I have taken the (bad) habit of buying my lunch out, as there is just so much offer around here that it is impossible (almost) to resist. In an effort to ‘eat light’ and in the illusion of saving on the calories intake, a few of us girls have become quite fond of the ‘asian inspired’ soups that are now available pretty much in any high…
Exploring Paris local restaurants Girlie weekends are a must every so often, and Paris is an easy to reach destination for me. It seemed an easy place to meet my sister TroppoBuono, a well known Italian food writer and her friend Chiara, a chocolatier, who currently lives indeed in Paris. With these two around, the weekend was never going to be one of fashion, sightseeing or rest. No. It was going to be a weekend about eating, drinking, tasting with…
Working for a big, huge, financial corporation has some perks. One of these came last week in the form of a clients’ event to which I was invited and which I gladly accepted. It was going to be held in Marylebone, at La Fromagerie. I follow them on Twitter and I had heard about the venue, the products and the events they host so I was very keen to try it out especially if I was not even going…