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Cooking with lemons… {article}
Published in Review, The Weekend Australian, (10/11/2012). ‘Would you like some lemons from our tree?’ My elderly Sicilian neighbour peers at me through the fence. ‘I’d love some.’ Eagerly, I come ove… more →
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Cooking with lemons... {article}
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wrote 6 months ago: Published in Review, The Weekend Australian, (10/11/2012). ‘Would you like some lemons from our tree … more →
Winter Vines...
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wrote 9 months ago: Winter vines, once mighty with abundant leaves, and purple clusters pregnant with the future, stand … more →
The Strega Literary Prize (Premio Strega) in Italy...
wrote 9 months ago: Perhaps because my great-grandmother Maddalena was an Abruzzese village witch, there is something th … more →
Almond salted chocolates...
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wrote 10 months ago: This quick and {very simple!} recipe for almond salted chocolates may not be for everyone but I … more →
Naples, 1950
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wrote 10 months ago: {Photographer ~ Erich And … more →
~ Recipe ~ Involtini di melanzane al forno ~
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wrote 11 months ago: INGREDIENTS Tomato passata: olive oil 1 tin chopped tomatoes fresh, torn basil leaves and/ or parsle … more →
Sweet dumplings...
wrote 11 months ago: zippoli, zeppole, sfingi… these sweet, doughnut-like dumplings have many different names throu … more →
Involtini di melanzane al forno...
wrote 11 months ago: It may not be the prettiest dish but the fried slices of eggplant rolled like crepes around prosciut … more →
A lovely way to spend an hour or two....
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wrote 11 months ago: “If you have a garden and a library, you have all you need.” ~ translated from Cicero’s Latin … more →
Fossa Sole, fossa soul, Fossa in the sun...
wrote 1 year ago: This painting of Fossa in the Abruzzo is by artist Juan Alfredo Parisse, born in Buenos Aires, Argen … more →
Pasta merchant, Naples 1954
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wrote 1 year ago: {Photographer: Erich Andres} … more →
Watching over...
wrote 1 year ago: Maki Horanai is an artist whose beautiful paintings we discovered by chance when we came across her … more →
Roasted chestnuts....
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wrote 1 year ago: Autumn means chestnuts {castagne}, and while Nonno Anni is no longer here to roast them with us {p.9 … more →
Life in the Abruzzo in 1913...
wrote 1 year ago: “Maria with cooking pots”, painted by Estella Canziani in Mascione, Abruzzi, 1913. Part … more →
3 year anniversary of Abruzzo earthquake...
wrote 1 year ago: On April 6th it is 3 years since the earthquake hit the Abruzzo around L’Aquila in 2009 and mo … more →
Citrus merchant, Naples, 1954
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wrote 1 year ago: {Photographer: Erich Andres} … more →
Freshly baked bread...
wrote 1 year ago: For many centuries, baking in most Italian villages took place mostly once a week or even a fortnigh … more →
Dancing in the snow...
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wrote 1 year ago: This picture of young priests dancing in the snow was taken at a seminary in Le Marche in the early … more →
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wrote 1 year ago: “Give me books, fruit, French wine, and fine weather and a little music out of doors, played b … more →
