I have always had a conflictual relationship with farinata, the famous Genoa chickpea tart. Sincere and dispassionate love when bought already made, deep hate mixed with discomfort when I prepared it at home. Yes, I’ve …
It may be because it is the season and you can see it placidly sat on all greengrocer’s counters. It may be for its warm and enveloping color, which recalls that of the leaves on …
My last post was on Genoese meat ravioli, one of the most traditional dish of our Region. Unfortunately I did not have enought time to prepare and post also the recipe of their usual seasoning: …
There are those who defined the Genoese meat ravioli as "the most exquisite of all the soups in the world" (Giovanni Casaccia, Genovese-Italian Dictionary, Genoa 1851). Someone like Ratto, author of one of the first …
Most of those who has a thing about baking knows the “genoise” sponge cake. It’s the soft cake made just with eggs, sugar and flour, a few butter and no baking powder. A cake extremely …
Focaccia in Genoa is ubiquitous. It is in our life from sunrise to sunset. We soak it in the cappuccino for breakfast (yes, we do, and it’s incredibly good), we give it to our children …
Simplicity often amazes. In the kitchen it is so: if you use excellent raw materials, few of them treated with care and combined with judgment and experience are enough to create excellent dishes. Stroscia cake of …
White as the sky, roofs and streets of Genoa these days. White as the snow that enveloped Genoa in a whirlwind of icy wind. The white cardoon with its candor has the taste and shape of …
This recipe for the Genoese roasted rice tastes of friendship. My friend Serafino (a famous genoese butcher now on retirement and son of one of the most popular restaurant owner in Genoa in the fifties) …
Cappon magro, such a curious recipe. Born as a poor dish, consisting mainly of leftovers and fish of little importance, over the years it became the most festive and sumptuous preparation of the Ligurian cuisine, …
THE HISTORY OF GENOA CAKE (PANDOLCE) Like every dessert that represents Christmas for a city, Pandolce (u pandùce, in Genoese dialect) better known in the UK as Genoa cake, has its own story, or better its …
