Panettone are delicious, light italian bakes popular around Christmas. Seggiano is a family owned company importing high quality food, drink and ingredients into the UK from artisan producers around the country.
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Panettone are delicious, light italian bakes popular around Christmas. Seggiano is a family owned company importing high quality food, drink and ingredients into the UK from artisan producers around the country.
Read moreDelayed by the Covid pandemic, the latest James Bond movie is released this week and part of the active takes place in the southern Italian city of Matera, home of spectacular scenery and a visit by the author and his class mates from the University of Gastronomic Sciences.
Read moreHigh up in the hills of Lombardy, south of Milan, are 400 bee hives dotted around fields, woodlands and edging vineyards. They belong to siblings Michela and Paolo who for the past ten years have created a life in the countryside of Lombardy in northern Italy looking after bees, showing a sincere love and caring […]
Read moreHigh above the Mediterranean Sea in Vallebona, an ancient town in the Italian province of Liguria, lies a grove of bitter orange trees. Family run, the La Vecchia Distilleria grove is developing a reputation for high quality orange water known as Acqua di Fiori d’Arancio Amaro and for a limited production of neroli, an essential […]
Read moreHidden behind cardboard boxes of polenta and rice and alongside flimsy plastic bags of dried pasta lay a smallish cotton bag full of magic beans, known in the Italian province as Fagiolo Bianco di Conio, White Beans of Conio. This drawer sits in a cupboard in my Italian kitchen, in a small town about an […]
Read moreCool morning air blows down from the Alpine mountains into Ivrea, in Piedmont, northern Italy and mingles with the scent of oranges, stacked in quiet street corners and squares ready for the city’s annual carnival, the Battaglia delle Arancie (Battle of the Oranges). It’s mid-February and time for the carnival, in which locals pelt each […]
Read moreChefs have a choice. Run with the new, the unknown and the experimental, or fill their menus with dishes that cemented their early reputation. Yes, the favourites remain on the list – why would you want to disappoint long term fans of the dish seeking out signature dishes – think Riccardo Camanini at Lido 84 […]
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