Raising funds for a good cause with Francesco Mazzei
Volunteering at a fundraising dinner in our Italian Embassy with Francesco Mazzei and a fab team.
Volunteering at a fundraising dinner in our Italian Embassy with Francesco Mazzei and a fab team.
Bidding on a chef’s table – and hosting it at home. With Marcus Verberne
Photo courtesy of Mondo Mulia We did it yet again. After the fun my sister @squadrilla75 and I had cooking for charity in November, we thought it would only be fair to cook together again. This time, we’d need to show case our very own home town’s food. Neapolitan food has somehow been fairly popular recently, in the guise of the ‘perfect pizza’ and Napoli has been the food destination of choice of many London food personalities. Photo courtesy…
Discover Series… We did it again. Following on from the success (well, it felt that way) of the fundraising dinner DiscoverAbruzzo, I decided to plan a second event. Same cause (FAI, the Italian heritage trust), same location (our humble abode) but this time, why not enroll the help of fellow Cilento lovers @Squadrilla75 and Chiara, her friend from school and pastry chef? During our summer holidays in Villammare (Cilento), the planning begun. We shopped for food, we asked our local chefs…
FareShare warehouse A few weeks ago Raffaella Baruzzo and I met, when she donated a gorgeous hamper of chocolates to my work raffle we held in support of MCS. As we talked about charitable causes, she mentioned one called FoodCycle. I had not heard of them, but I was familiar with a similar concept, FareShare. Volunteering at their Bermondsey warehouse some time ago, I was shocked to see the amount and the quality of the ‘surplus’ food they receive from…