Comfort Food
On days like today, when the wind is doing its best to batter through the windows and even the usually ebullient pigeons in the back yard have gone into hiding from the vertical rain, the only thing to do is … Continue reading
Category Archives: Eating Like a Maniac
Fishing for peaches
I’m staying in a hostel in Siracusa. It’s a couple of days before Ferragosto and the place is packed with people from all different countries: France, Germany, South Africa, England and Italy – and that’s just in my dorm. I’m … Continue reading
Perfect weekend recipe
Ingredients: choir members (approx. 30) paella (5 large pans of) cameras (at least 2) herbal tea (including diuretic angelica) Taboo (1 set) cakes (large, in varying flavours) guitar (1 + player). Method: First, prepare your choir members. The best way … Continue reading
Head for the hills
Ten euros. Are you in? I’m too tired to debate whether or not I actually want to go, so just hand over the money and collapse onto the table. Natasha laughs at me. That isn’t his name, but he did … Continue reading
Bleat, piggy, bleat
There’s a spirited argument going on between the ten members of our group. Are we eating lamb or pork? We’ve fed some to Sam, the almost-vegetarian-who-makes-an-exception-for-lamb, and she’s perfectly content with that decision. That may just be to salve her … Continue reading
Fly me to the moon and let me play among the lobsters
Maybe it’s the English-accented Italian, or our clothes. Maybe it’s that we’ve turned up somewhere between 9 and 9.30. Maybe it’s just the fact that they’ve never seen us before and put two and two together, but as soon as … Continue reading
Bon Appétit?
I spent three days in Paris and only ate one decent meal. That’s not a good batting record for a country that gave the world Cordon-Bleu and Haute Cuisine, along with the fathers of modern cookery, Carême and Escoffier. French … Continue reading
Journey to Atlantis
‘Teacher! My teacher! Oh my god!’ Lucio, the owner of Atlantis, the restaurant in which we’re eating tonight, is over the moon to see Alex. Alex taught him two years ago, and there’s a lot to catch up on, apparently. … Continue reading
Little Saint Nick
It’s the Festa di San Nicola. The town is decked out like a Christmas tree (appropriate, given the saint we’re celebrating – yes, it’s that Saint Nick), and there are food stalls at every corner. Sweet stalls selling foot-long black … Continue reading
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Glass of white wine for the lady?
It’s been raining all day. We’ve been to the Uffizi, queued for an hour and a half for the Accademia and seen an amazing metaphysical art exhibition at Palazzo Strozzi. We’ve also stomped the streets until my feet are pretty … Continue reading
