Author name: Diane Lee

Join me in Venice for my annual Lagoon Workshop, 25-30 April 2027 I started this very special culinary retreat in 2021 […]

It’s a blustery, drizzly, foggy winter’s day. A day that might normally send you straight back to bed to take refuge

It may not be new — the inspiration from this menu comes from Pellegrino Artusi’s nineteenth century cookbook — but

There is nothing like Venice covered in fog. The cold, damp air and the threat (or excitement, at least for me)

I didn’t notice it at first, the skinny tree with dark leaves in our shared garden at our new home in Settignano,

It seems like a long way to go about getting some fresh saffron to frost a birthday cake with, but

There are a lot of claims out there for ‘best’ chocolate cake recipes, which is not only a wild claim

It was 2001. Two weeks shy of my 21st birthday, exactly 15 years ago. I arrived at the Santa Maria

Autumn is quite probably my favourite time of the year for cooking. It’s that moment that I wait all year for. That