What would life be without a cookie to start the morning well, to pamper yourself at the end of the day or celebrate a special occasion? This is a timeless …
For the French author Michel Tournier, cheese is, together with bread and wine, the trinity of the European table. They are made of milk, meadows, pastures, perfumes and cellars where …
Directly from the Maritime Alps, from the mountains of the extreme Western Liguria where a pastoral cuisine called "white cuisine" dominates, comes a simply surprising recipe of potatoes "in ta …
Every Italian region has its own cold cuts. Every peasant family, every village, had its recipes handed down from generation to generation to preserve for a long time that pork …
Baci di Alassio (literally kisses from Alassio) are one of the most representative sweets of the West Italian Riviera. Made up with hazelnut and chocolate, they were invented and patented by …
Do you know the Beigua Park? It is one of the great protected natural parks of Liguria that stretches behind Arenzano and Varazze, west of Genoa. It is internationally recognized …
“When are we organizing our apéritif in the alley?” This is the question with which I opened the conversation the first night I sat at the table with my family in …
Traditionally also known as the "bread of the sea", anchovies are a cornerstone of the seafood cuisine of Liguria. They migrate in schools, in front of the Ligurian coasts from spring …
Val D'Aveto, you know, fascinates me deeply. I’ve been visiting it for three summers. Short daily trips, nothing more, hanging around without a precise destination. But it was enough to …
Grandma’s stuffed tomatoes are a must on our summer tables. In Liguria, the tomato par excellence are "cuore di bue" tomatoes, a tomato that has the shape of a beef heart. …
The vegetable garden we have in our home in Cervo every year slowly gives us smooth and shiny eggplants. We love them all, one by one, ‘cause they are the result …
