From my garden.. my first artichoke is coming up! olives just forming the green hills of spring around my house my California poppies, bringing in a little sunshine from home this lucky ladybug-bearing plant is a vine..with the newly formed bunches of grapes for fall’s wine warm weather light lunchpaper-thin slices of raw beef, carpaccio,…
Let the party begin!
spring is in the air! Sunday at the Macelleria Cecchini black olives in orange herb filled roast pork our table at Dario’s This week both my friend Beatrice and I celebrate out birthdays… so we went to Dario Cecchini’s SoloCiccia Sunday for lunch to start celebrating! We went early to catch some of the Sunday…
Market day Certaldo ( wed)
Mr Cipriani My little village Certaldo has two market days. Wednesday is the larger day when they close down the main road around town by the pool, and have a huge market, the kind with clothes, food, housewares and plants. It was fun to be off work and catch up on town action and gossip….
Art in Florence
From our table inside Mario’s looking out at the never-ending line! The Art of Dining in Florence can be of the highest levels. Yesterday at Mario’s was one of those days. I have taken most of April off to work on self-publishing my cookbook with more notes and recipes for sale to the public and…
The Big Scoop!
The Big Scoop is out…. David L’s new book The Perfect Scoop has been released! Filled with incredible recipes for not only ice cream, gelato, sorbet and granita but also toppings, what David calls “vessels” to serve your ice cream in such as crepes profiterols etc and a wild selection of things to stir in…
Radio
I was just interviewed last night by Leslie of Girl About Town.She was just recently in Florence and I took her to some of my favorite places.Listen to the show!
Pesce di Aprile and Palm Sunday
Often in Italy holidays collide.This Sunday is Palm Sunday and the locals all went to church… to get not palms, but olive branches. So is it Olive Sunday? It happens to coincide with the trimming of the olive trees for the season, topping them off to be easier to harvest in winter. It is also…
I am so THERE!
Besides being cute…. useful! In my classes one of the hardest things to teach is Trussing,tieing off rolled meats etc.I can’t wait to get my hands on these FOODLOOPS But has anyone actually seen them or used them, I can’t find where to order them.