by Elena | Apr 10, 2021 | A glass of
Giving a woman flowers is always a moment of pleasant surprise: even for a person like me who is million miles from having a green thumb (I can even kill succulents …), receiving a floral gift, from the simple rose to the most majestic bouquet of flowers of all...
by Elena | Mar 22, 2021 | Unusual pairings
I have always been fascinated by the stories of migrants (big family to which I belong too, after all): when I think of my Italian region, which basically has a reputation as a land of “Bogia nen” (“don’t move” in dialect Piedmontese), I...
by Elena | Feb 28, 2021 | A glass of
If you have to open a bottle and you want to have fun, you can only choose this Sicilian white wine. Why? Because Sicily is a land that brings joy, because it is a Sicilian indigenous vine, Grillo, and because the label has designed, precisely, a bright cricket...
by Elena | Feb 13, 2021 | A glass of
This is the incipit signed by Samuel Beckett that you can find on the Ca ‘de Pazzi (“House of fools” in English) website. Madness in a liquid state: this is how this Franciacorta DOCG producers introduce theirselves, a concept born from the meeting...
by Elena | Jan 26, 2021 | Unusual pairings
Chili con carne: this well-known and very good dish from Texas (not from Mexico!) is one of the things that makes you in a good mood: that’s why “it must be done”. This is the point. The variant I choose to prepare is the classic one (which basically...
