About

Buongiorno e benvenuti! Hello and welcome!

I’m so glad you’re here 😃 If you love cooking and love Italian food you’ve come to the right place.

My Cooking School aka My Teachers

I've been cooking and baking since I was 12 and it has become a lifelong passion of mine. Most of my early cooking skills I learned from my mom, who is an excellent cook, but most important I got from her the love and dedication with which she cooks delicious meals for the whole family, every. single. day. My father was also an excellent cook, especially when he got more time to experiment after his retirement, smoking meat and making homemade sausage form scratch.

When I met my husband and his big Italian family, who have now become mine, I started to soak every tiny detail of how genuine Italian home cooked meals for created. I've spent countless hours in the kitchen with my mother-in-law, who is an excellent cook, learning everything I could learn from her experience and her heritage.

In the last few years I took numerous courses and Italian cooking classes from locals to learn and master particular regional foods, like in the picture below, a snapshot from Pane Carasau masterclass in the heart of Sardinia, Fonni.

During these 15 years I've come a long way. And now, the best praise for me to hear is my mom and my mother-in-law saying that I've far exceeded that skills and there's nothing else they can teach me.

What You'll Find On Italian Recipe Book

I’m a strong believer that with a good recipe anyone can cook like an Italian, even if you don’t consider yourself a good cook.

• Detailed step-by-step process with pictures for most recipes, but also the “Why” and “What” make the particular recipe work so well.
• You’ll always have something delicious to eat and something new to discover that will make cooking easier and quicker for you while nourishing your loved ones.
• You'll travel Italy without taking the airplane, discovering traditional, often poor-man's dishes from different regions of Italy and immersing in their unforgettable flavors.
• My recipes meet you where you are and take to the next level: from 15-minute dinners and no bake desserts to more complex iconic Italian recipes like Neapolitan Sfogliatelle and Cartellate from Apuglia that are a true labor of love.

Fun Facts About Me

• I’m fluent in Italian even if it’s my third language.
• I cook for my family every single day. Saturday night being the exception.
  In good Italian tradition, Sabato - Pizza! Saturday is a pizza night! It could be a night out in pizzeria, pizza place or a take out. But even then, I often try to convince my husband I bake homemade focaccia instead and we enjoy it with one of our favorite focaccia toppings.
• The first traditional Italian food I tried was Lasagna, back in 2002 in Genoa.
• I have a major degree in Economic Cybernetics. Probably that’s the reason I can easily do a done-for-you Limoncello calculation and take every chance to dig into the science of cooking. I don’t ware apron and don’t use nailpolish. 
• Around midnight, you’llusually find me making some kind of dough. It looks like an obsession (my husband laughs and cries!)  but that’s the only time I have peacefully to myself without my toddler screaming or doing neverending housework during the day to try new recipes and perfect the older ones.
• I don’t have a sweet tooth. I occasionally enjoy a bite of dessert or a cookie (panna cotta, amaretti, tiramisu) but I would have focaccia for breakfast anyday and even an octopus salad (my husband things it’s scandalous!) that’s why I eat salmon bruschetta instead.
• I love talking to vendors at the farmer’s market and overhearing recipes in the bus. Often I will take a note of a new recipe and share it in my newsletter.
• I’m a cook book addict. I can pass hours in my mothers in law library from the 90s. Cook books were not a thing back in the days, just like cooking shows were not a thing 20 year ago so once they started to sprout my mother-in-law started to build her collection. Now my personal library is also expanding with the classics of Italian cooking but also with very little known gems - 95% all written in Italian.

I hope you enjoy my recipes as much as I enjoyed creating them.

A presto! Talk soon!