An Italian in London… cooking, eating and sightseeing
Pasta mon amour I love pasta, no secret. This blog is entitled to it, and I am from Napoli, where pasta is a staple of pretty much most meals (right, maybe not breakfast). I usually prefer to cook or even…
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Via Emilia comes from an ancient Roman road that still crosses the region connecting the main cities In fact, the menus of Via Emilia, a fairly new restaurant in Hoxton Square, depicts the region itself and such road connecting the…
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I first met Francesco Mazzei when I participated in a really cool cooking contest sponsored by Grana Padano. He was a judge and I was a ‘finalist’ blogger. I did not win, but I had a lot of fun, met…
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Seggiano is the name of the small hilltop village on Monte Amiata in southern Tuscany, where Peri Eagleton and David Harrison have farmed organic olives since 1985. Twenty years ago they started selling their local Olivastra Seggianese extra virgin olive…
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Si e’ sempre meridionali di qualcuno… This phrase (‘you are always southerner to someone else’) was made famous by a Neapolitan movie in the 80s (Cosi’ Parlo’ Bellavista), a funny, heartwarming satire about stereotypes between North and South in Italy….
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