One of my mum’s obsessions, like all mothers, was that I ate vegetables so compromises were the order of the day. In every dish I tried...

When I was young, I followed my parents wherever they went, including weddings. In one of these events I happened to taste a dish that...

Contrary to the tastes of young people, I loved cauliflower and my mother made a pasta and cabbage that was to lose your head, so I...

I have always been a quiet girl, I never gave my parents too much trouble except that as a teenager I created so many problems with food....

A recipe very dear to my grandmother was baked lamb also because it was perhaps the only meat she ate with pleasure. This dish was...

The recipe in these pages is challenging not in the sense that it is difficult but because it is an important recipe, a recipe that...

When in the afternoon we children were in the mood for a good thing to eat, we didn’t open the pantry to pick up things at random,...

My grandmother loved cooking for her family, she grews up without her parents, because they emigrated to America, leaving her in the care...

One more dessert, but this time it is Christmas and here I find myself in difficulty because my grandmother made them by “eye”. I asked...

Now let’s enter a territory very dear to me, that of sweets. My mother hasn’t finished eating if she doesn’t eat fruit at the end of the...

There are a thousand versions of gnocchi: with potatoes, with pumpkin, with chestnut flour, with spinach and I could go on but better...

Meatballs are another dish that is very present in my childhood memories. As a child, I didn’t like meat very much and to make me eat it...

I am here in front of the computer and I have already deleted what i want to write 3 times because what I am doing is so important to me...

The first recipe in the book is the Eggplant Parmigiana which despite its name is a typically Campania dish. It is a dish known...

My name is Philly (my full name is Filomena) and I was born in the 70s in Pagani in the province of Salerno. I grew up in a matriarchal...