In Liguria there are countless historical pasta shapes. “Gasse” are one of them. Literally they mean loops and they are an ancient Genoa pasta shape that few people still remember. You know I love bringing to light historical food finds, not only to let them live...
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 Romanesque church of the ninth century enjoy the view. It is sufficient to look out on the threshold to...
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 product of excellence of that Italian Riviera coastline. When I was a little girl...
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 to get endangered? To get an answer to my questions last week I went...
Sometimes it seems, by chance, that a thin string sews together our days. Last days a pink string appeared in my life. I had to attend the presentation of a book of Ligurian dessert recipes under invite of my mother in law. When I got there I discovered that...