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Coming home

by Alice

Sometimes all you need is a Saturday afternoon – the sky an egg wash blue, bare trees crackling against the softness of it, like great lightning bolts. A bedbound husband, a coffee fast going cold and a cake in the oven. 40 minutes to spare. 40 minutes to tell a story. I want to tell you all about Lecce and the honeyed streets. The...

January 18, 2020
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Life

FOOD

baked peach mascarpone

Baked peaches

Published by Alice

If anything was going to bring me back to writing, it was going to be a baked peach. Ever since the days of reading Jane Grigson in the greengrocers...

September 28, 2018
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Italian, Recipes, Sweet things
ossobuco with borlotti beans

Beef shank with borlotti beans

Published by Alice

Ah a recipe! And a distinctly un-springlike one at that. I hope you’ll forgive me. This is something that we cooked during our last couple of weeks in Venice:...

May 4, 2018
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Italian, Main Course, Recipes

Venetian food: a beginning

Published by Dominic

It’s probably safe to say that Venice beat Walt Disney to the title of “most magical place on earth” by over a thousand years. But like so many things,...

February 12, 2018
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Anthropology of Food, Recipes, Stories From The Table
essi di burano

The sweets of Venice (frittelle, biscotti and Carnevale)

Published by Alice

When I remember my first time au pairing, I think mostly of  doughnuts. They were called bombe, and I was obsessed. For two months I ate one every single day. I’d...

February 11, 2018
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Recipes, Sweet things

TRAVEL

snow in the giardini venice

How to spend a snowy morning in Venice

Published by Alice

I have found the best place to enjoy the snow in Venice, quite by accident. You must go to the Giardini at 10am. The path through the park will...

February 28, 2018
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Travel

Venice in the fog

Published by Alice

I thought that Venice in winter would be foggier. Or rather, I’d hoped it would. When I visited the city a handful of winters ago, the fog that rose...

February 13, 2018
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Travel

Venice is a peach

Published by Alice

In January, Venice is a peach. The velvet skin of her buildings – oversaturated in the glare of summer – blushes now in this hazy light. For the most...

January 23, 2018
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Travel
al merca rialto

Hidden Venice with The Roman Guy

Published by Alice

In Venice, it’s never too early for an aperitivo. Especially at the weekend, when spritz o’clock chimes at around 10am, and the campi fill with locals drinking and putting...

November 16, 2017
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Travel

“No one who cooks, cooks alone. Even at her most solitary, a cook in the kitchen is surrounded by generations of cooks past, the advice and menus of cooks present, the wisdom of cookbook writers.”

Laurie Colwin

STORIES FROM THE TABLE

Coming home

Published by Alice

Sometimes all you need is a Saturday afternoon – the sky an egg wash blue, bare trees crackling against the softness of it, like great lightning bolts. A bedbound...

January 18, 2020
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Life

Memories of spring

Published by Alice

I’ve written a poem, and as that’s something I rarely do, I thought I’d share it here. In the midst of this parched and listless summer, it’s a reminder...

July 10, 2018
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Life

Saying goodbye

Published by Alice

On our final night in Venice, we paid one last visit to Osteria Ruga di Jaffa. The owner, Alvise, gave us a bottle of sumptuous olive oil as a...

April 9, 2018
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Life
venice lagoon

14 March

Published by Alice

I should really be writing about natural health supplements, but I’m sitting outside a cafe with a coffee and a soft breeze in my hair, and spring is here...

March 14, 2018
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Life

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