San Miniato’s annual White Truffle Festival has been a highlight for me ever since calling Italy home and falling in […]

Note: I originally wrote this post in 2021 but I update it every year — the latest update was April

I know, I know, the ingredients might be challenge — chicken combs and testicles aren’t the easiest to obtain or

We used to live on Via dei Neri, the street that runs from the back of the Uffizi Gallery towards

When I first walked into the kitchen of Fabrizia Lanza at Anna Tasca Lanza, you could smell the chocolate from

It began with 120 kg of tomatoes. Six huge boxes of small, somewhat oval tomatoes of a Sicilian variety called

I was dropping in on Marco’s aunt and uncle, Franca and Riccardo a few years ago. We let ourselves in

Ever since losing my ice cream maker (I lent it to a friend who put it in the dishwasher —

We spent a week in our favourite holiday place, the very special Giglio island, a tiny island in Southern Tuscany