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A recipe – Arancini with sweet red pepper & smoked scamorza

A recipe – Arancini with sweet red pepper & smoked scamorza

A tradition As I come from Napoli, one of the ‘street food’ items that I most love is arancini, rice balls. We call them arancini in Napoli, in other parts of Italy they change gender and become arancine, and have different versions. From the massive rice balls eaten in Sicily, full to the brim with mince meat ragu and peas (the best in my childhood memory used to be on the ferry between mainland and the island, believe it or…

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Chef’s Table with Danilo Cortellini

Chef’s Table with Danilo Cortellini

Since watching the latest MasterChef the Professional last November and pining for Danilo Cortellini I had been hoping to try his food at some point. In fact, as he is the Head Chef at the Italian Embassy in London, it is privilege of our ambassador to eat his food every day, but kind of difficult for everyone else. When I met Danilo a couple of months back, he mentioned he was planning a series of pop ups and it is at one…

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Grana Padano ‘Top Chef’ Blogger Competition

Grana Padano ‘Top Chef’ Blogger Competition

While I was on #TheLongWayHome I received an email inviting me to take part in a cooking challenge…and two things caught my eye. The fact that it was promoting a classic, well known Italian product (Grana Padano cheese) and that it was going to be judged by Francesco Mazzei, formerly of L’Anima, who is a great ambassador of Italian cuisine here in the UK and like me, from Southern Italy. Of course I accepted. I came back to London and…

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Brazilian night with Dhruv Baker and Rosana McPhee by Tilda Samba Rice

Brazilian night with Dhruv Baker and Rosana McPhee by Tilda Samba Rice

  In the last few weeks Brazil is everywhere, of course thanks to the World Cup. Italy and England didn’t exactly set the world alight and went out equally embarrassingly on the first round; thankfully some good Brazilian vibes were to be found last week at London Foodie’s beautiful London home. Sponsored by Tilda Rice and Wild Card, the event was a one-off dinner for a group of bloggers and friends which was going to be cooked by no less…

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