And finally Christmas has come and with it the time to plan the menu for celebrating. My Genoa Christmas menu (but for the starter, which is a family recipe) looks back …
Last month I was invited to participate as a guest at the gastronomic event "Rapallo del gusto", a series of meeting focused on the promotion of local products and traditional …
Summer time of salads: fast, fresh, light. But also with a story to tell, why not? In Liguria we have a couple of salats that with their ingredients represent our region, …
Just spend a couple of days in Genoa to discover that here there is an ice cream (oops! a semifreddo) unique in the world impossible to resist: Panera! The name "Panera" …
Quaresimali are my obsession this Easter! I have already made them three times as they cannot last until Easter! They are ancient Liguria sweets traditional in the Lent period and …
Punctually late, here a Ligurian recipe for your Easter lunch: lamb with artichokes. Eating lamb at Easter is an ancient tradition spread throughout Italy if not in all Christian countries. Consuming …
Carnival sweet ravioli represent an ancient Genovese confectionery tradition, where marzipan, in different shapes and colors, appears almost every holiday. It is said that marzipan recipe was invented by a small …
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 …
Genoese have always been used to eat lasagna on the day of Epiphany, and there is no reason not to respect this tradition! Genoa indeed was the first city …
As usual I reduce myself to the last minute. Just like the almond crunchy nougat, to be prepared even at the last minute. Here the recipe of this ancient, …
Sardenaria: some history, my recipe and where to eat it. Sardenaira is a historic dish, a gastronomical monument of the extreme western Italian Riviera, even beyond the France border. They say …