“When are we organizing our apéritif in the alley?” This is the question with which I opened the conversation the first night I sat at the table with my family in Cervo. There are events that arise spontaneously and succeed so well that they deserve to rise to annual...
Summer equals vacation, friends, simplicity, slowness. Instead of the usual dinner, an aperitif in the garden or on the terrace with chilly wine, perhaps sparkling, and a few good things to nibble. Children running around and it doesn’t matter if for once they...
First of all, let’s clear a big misunderstanding: Focaccia al formaggio is not a proper “focaccia” it’s not a flat bread with holes on the surface leaking extra-virgin olive oil. It is, actually, an ancient savory pie, mede of a shell of thin unleavened dough filled...
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 neve been able to properly bake a farinata....