Brrr. We have been hit by a tremendous cold front, which has brought tons of snow (or at least, tons by lake Lugano standards) and very c...

Ok, so my homemade pate' is not actually that famous, the only thing that it's famous for is that it disappears at the speed of li...

I'm soooo tired these days. Last night I had the closing shift at the newspaper and afterwards, I stayed up drinking beer and watching...

It seems like yesterday that I was thinking about Thanksgiving being two months away. And now it's here. Only two days away. Of cours...

  One thing I miss about summer the most once fall sets in is eating flavorful fresh vegetables. Fall veggies are fine, but they are ...

Acquacotta in Italian means, literally, cooked water, but as you can tell by the picture, there's much more to this Tuscan soup tha...

Happy belated Halloween everyone! I hope you are not tired of pumpkins and pumpkin recipes because lately I have been cooking a loooooot o...

For the whole month of September I have eaten and drunk as if it where the holiday season, partly because I was trying to enjoy the last f...

If you think that I'm obsessed with savory pies, you are 100% right. I am. My obsession springs from the harsh reality that more than...

There's tomatoes and then there's Tomatoes, with a capital T. The Tomatoes one of my coworkers brought to work yesterday definite...

Every once in a while I have a stroke of genius. I know I'm not being very modest here, but if you had tried this mock lasagna the other...

Monday I started working as a journalist at http://www.tio.ch and I absoultely love the job. I didn't realize how much I missed working...

First things first. I have an announcement: I HAVE FINALLY FOUND A JOB!!! And not any job. A kick-ass journalism job here in Switzerland. I ...

First things first, I'm sure you are all wondering..."what the heck is fregola?" Very simply put, it's a special kind of p...

Again  have disappeared and haven't posted anything in what seems like an eternity. Also, I haven't been able to visit other people...

No. They are not called 'hospital' shrimp because they are served in hospitals. As good as Swiss hospitals are, they don't serve...

I'm obsessed with farmers' markets. There, I said it. It's kind of weird because I used to hate markets when I lived in Milano, ...

I hate fou fou cocktails. I really do. Perfect example: I cannot stand any variations of the good old Martini. There's only two Martinis...

You know how some people are dessert kings and queens? They bake beautiful cakes and pies, their chocolate suffles are flawless, they even m...

If I start annoying you with my never ending babble about spring vegetables, please do tell. I don't want to become one of those persons...