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What to cook on hot days
Inspiration from Puglia and Japan for the first heatwave of the summer.
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The focaccia recipe I've been making for a decade
Actually it's a schiacciata, and here are all the variations I love
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Thoughts on "house meals" and emergency pantry essentials
“A house meal must be adaptable as a chameleon, made of basic ingredients, fast, culinarily undemanding, and seem neither a sin nor a charity to…
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May 2025

The historical citrus collections of the Medici in Florence
A glimpse into La Specola, a nineteenth century cabinet of curiosities.
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Tucci in Italy and the one meal you should have in Florence
(as an omnivore)
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Making (but mostly eating) sheeps milk in Sicily
Cagliata, tuma and primo sale
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Sicilian spring and the return of Persephone
Wild flowers, myths and rituals.
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Emiko Davies

April 2025

The Italians who Resisted
With rice and with pasta, a celebration of Liberation Day
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A sesame lover's baking project
Tahini, maritozzi, Stanley Tucci, and workshop updates
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Yakisoba and the Midnight Diner 'special touch'
What I make and watch when I'm feeling nostalgic for Japan
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Inside a Labyrinth of Culatello
And a trip through Emilia Romagna this October
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March 2025

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