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 …
Tomato sauce is one of the pillars of the traditional Italian cuisine and still one of the most used ingredient in an everyday cooking. This is not just tomatoes in …
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 …
photo: Lucapuccio Last summer at a small restaurant on the beach of Bogliasco (tables straight on the beach, noise of the waves as background music and feet in the sand) a …
Turle are a typical first course of the so called “Cucina Bianca” literally White Cuisine. It is the traditional cuisine of the villages that rise on Monte Saccarello, in the …
Many are the rites of passage towards spring. The first walks without jacket or the skirts without socks despite the pungent air. The visit to the florist to dress up …
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 …
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 …
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 …
A new year has commenced, under the skin flows and tickles a desire of renewal. The desire to put a full-stop and write a new paragraph of our life, perhaps more …