Author name: Diane Lee

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

I’ve had this cookbook sitting beside my bed for weeks, trying to decide what to cook. I’d pick it up,

I’ve put up with some pretty awful kitchens in my 18 years of renting, particularly in Florence. Most of them

Three ingredients, and there you have my favourite type of iced coffee ever, and my ideal pick me up on

Quite possibly the best way to enjoy really good, ripe summer tomatoes – as well as making the most of

We’ve moved again. I’m losing count but I think it’s the seventh move since I started this blog which I

I’m really trying to stop lamenting about the heat — the relentless, humid, Tuscan heat — but it’s hard when

About halfway through a Tuscan summer the heat begins to really take its toll. Oppressive heat, like a hair dryer