Alex has just alerted me to the fact that, because they look like little gold coins, lentils are a traditional dish on New Year's Eve and New Year's Day in Italy as they are thought to bring wealth in the year to come! I know it is a little late, but I thought maybe we could …
Anna del Conte
Sue’s Socca……
While having a new year clean out of my 'in box' this morning, I found the 'socca' recipe that Sue Cane, our resident coeliac and gluten-free beer expert, had sent me a few weeks ago and that I had mentioned yesterday. In the course of another email she had commented that she …
Good pasta, excellent pasta, dreadful labelling – and Mostarda di Cremona…
I spent the weekend with my lovely friend, Italian cookery writer Anna del Conte and, just as happens every time I stay with her, I was left speechless by how wonderful the simplest of food can taste in the right hands. For lunch on Saturday, for which we had guests, we had …
Italian Food and Freefrom Diets
I have just been staying for a couple of days with my good friend Anna del Conte whose wonderful books on Italian food many of you will already know, as many of her recipes have appeared on the foodsmatter.com recipe pages (Just type Anna del Conte into the search box when you …