Liguria has a long tradition linked to pasta, both dry and stuffed. In fact for centuries, along with Campania and Sicily, it contested the primacy in the production and export …
A contemplative post this time. I spent the last two weekend in Val Graveglia harvesting chestnuts and mushrooms and this is a short photo reportage. Just to give you …
The grapes harvesting season in the Italian Riviera has just begun, then what better time to talk a little about the most famous wines produced in Liguria? First of all you …
Where to eat the best Italian Riviera food in Santa Margherita Ligure. If you are spending some days in Santa Margherita you will quite immediately get obsessed on where to find …
Which are the Italian Riviera traditional pasta shapes? What are their origins? How are they made and seasoned? Where to buy some Ligurian pasta? AN HYSTORICAL GLIMPSE FIRST Maybe you don't know that …
Just imagine. A long table under a grapevine pergola, the white linen tablecloth trembling under a light breeze, the blue sea there, below, stretched like a silk bedsheet. All around …
Behind the shaped iron gate a dusted road bordered by tall stone columns runs: it cuts in half a large orchard with thick trees of dark green leaves. An ancient …
When I started to travel through Liguria in search of "slow food" stories to tell so to show the most intimate folds of my region territory through the lives of …
Small, delicate, soft, sweet and fragrant. These are Valleggia apricots, arrived long time ago from the Far East, discharged by chance in the port of Savona and in time became a …
Bitter orange tree comes from far away. It started its journey from South East Asia and seed by seed it made its way through Oman, Persia and Egypt to arrive …
Why Albenga violet asparagus – a very ancient local variety - has such exclusive famous attributes and nonetheless is cultivated just by a fistful of farmers (biodiversity defenders) and risks …