Tag: venice
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VENICE: THE INTERNATIONAL LANGUAGE OF FOOD
Most perceptions of Venice are that its exclusive, expensive and out of reach for the ordinary person. This is understandable; where else in the world is the chosen mode of transport from the airport a water taxi, and gondolas act as bus and rail replacements? Located in Northern Italy, millions of tourists flock to the…
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Things You’ll Never See In Venice
(A Londoner’s observation:) A fat gondolier Santander Cycles Tweed suits Delays on the District and Circle lines Deliveroo drivers Congestion charge Nicola Sturgeon, Jeremy Corbyn, Boris Johnson or Sadiq Khan Greggs Ubers Pearly Kings and Queens Double decker bus Cheeky Nandos © S R D HILL
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Darrio Cecchini: The Mad Butcher of Panzano
As lockdown lifts and the world adapts to a new ‘normal’, I have found myself reflecting on the magnitude of recipe successes and failures that we have all experienced over the past months. Sourdough, banana bread and attempts at Pret’s chocolate chip cookies are just a few of the trends that seem to have been…
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Massimo Bottura and a Bitesized Revolution
During this quarantine period I have learnt a very important lesson about myself: I live for food. My entire day revolves around it. What is there to eat? What shall I cook? Shall I try baking? Will everyone enjoy this meal? Does it even matter if I know I’ll like it? You know, the usual…
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A Secret Venetian Obsession
The Italians are accredited with many obsessions, Venetians in particular. I, for once, am not referring to pizza, pasta, coffee or sex, but rather a smaller, four-legged friend, whose existence is prevalent in the floating city. Dogs. The animal traditionally associated with the streets of Venice is the cat. The alley cats who roam rooftops…
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An Ode to Pizza
An ode to pizza, my greasy friend, I never want the last bite to end. You always surprise me with something new, yet never once have I uttered: “I’ve bitten off more than I can chew!” The perfect combination of tomato and cheese, complemented so perfectly by a topping of zucchini. With chili oil or…
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Acqua Alta: The Rising Tide
November 2019 was certainly an eventful month for Venice. As a current resident in this sinking city, a lot of questions have been put to me recently; why is Venice flooding? What is Acqua Alta? Are you okay? And my personal favourite: Did you remember a wet suit? Acqua Alta itself is not an anomaly…
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“Peggy Guggenheim: L’ultima Dogaressa”
“It is always assumed that Venice is the ideal place for a honeymoon. This is a grave error. To live in Venice or even to visit it means that you fall in love with the city itself. There is nothing left over in your heart for anyone else” – Peggy Guggenheim, Out of This Century:…
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Una piccola introduzione
I’ve always found the concept of writing a blog relatively strange. The likelihood of anyone apart from family and friends reading has always been extremely low in my mind. Not to start with a pessimistic tone, but purely because they will have been the unlucky ones to have been bombarded with emails or texts containing…
Not Sophia Loren 