Feast of Flowers
“Flowers always make people better, happier and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine to the soul” – Luther Burbank Sunshine and happiness certainly radiate from our zucchini plot each summer when we begin to pick their golden yellow blooms. The first bouquet is always enjoyed as frittelle (or piteyi in our Calabrese dialect); […]
The Smell of Summer
If you had to encapsulate summer into a scent, what would it be? The sweet smell of coconut present in sunscreen or tropical drinks? The salty air of the sea? The perfume of flowers in full bloom? The smokiness of a campfire burning? For me, that defining scent would have to be piteyi i hiuri […]
Scarpaccia: The Dish with Sole
Given the choice to live in a shoe or eat one, I’d take the latter particularly in the case of an Italian regional specialty known as scarpaccia. Scarpaccia is a savoury zucchini tart (think zucchini bread but better) originating from the Tuscan coastal areas of Viareggio and Camaiore. Its name roughly translates to “old shoe”, […]