From January 7 to 9 I’ve been once again acting as Resident Chef at Bellavita Amsterdam, the expo where you can find the best Italian food & wine products every year (here some of the photos made by the amazing Bellavita photographers). One of the great chefs that I had the pleasure of working with is Peppe Zullo, a…
During the latest Horecava (8-10 January) I’ve been resident chef of Bellavita, THE Italian Food & Beverage Trade Show that represents and presents the best of the made in Italy (if you’d like to have an idea of how great this fair is, take a look at the video on this page). During this delicious 3-day food & drinks marathon…
The time of sad, unappetizing lunch sandwiches in plastic bags is over, baby! This beautiful salad is perfect for a delicious and healthy lunch at work, the whole year long and especially on hot Summer days. You can prepare it in advance, put it a mason jar – without the dressing – and keep it in the fridge until the…
Hurrah, it’s Healthy Eating Week! I eat healthy most of the times, and I also like to prepare wholesome – yet very tasty – sweets, which means with as little sugar as possible. Sugar is fantastic and indispensable for a lot of desserts but I don’t have a sweet tooth and I’m happy with some good chocolate every now and…
Follow my blog with Bloglovin Time for an Easter recipe from my second cookbook, “Cucina di casa mia“. At home we always eat this savoury pie at Easter. It is, along with pesto, the most classic and recognizable dish from Genoa, the city where I was born. My grandmother Maria, the mother of my father, made it every year. As…
I love plain (green) Swiss chard because of its sweet, “earthy” taste. When chard is in season I prefer it to spinach because it doesn’t mess up your taste buds when you drink wine with it like spinach does, and also because it has a lot more “body” and an almost meaty flavour which I adore. Rainbow chard is even…