Roddys

The origin story – the specific episode or exact moment when someone decides to make something for the first time:…

While the selection is best between midday and 2pm, I prefer going to the canteen-like Felice just under our flat…

A group of young people, two of them wearing laurel wreaths to mark their graduation, arrived in the piazza at 6pm.…

We had started washing up the night before, but glasses with bits of wine in them were still on the table, along…

Pudding – maybe my favourite ever – arrived in two bowls. The first was glass and filled to the brim with chocolate…

Radicchio: a single word for a whole world of red and white leaves. As always, it began in a wild, spontaneous way,…

There were two bags of flour in the middle of the table. Laura, who was teaching me how to make a pasta shape…

More than the semolina, tapioca or rice pudding itself, it was the spoonful of jam I liked best. The adult in…

A young shrimp is perplexed as to why all his family walk backwards. He wants to walk forwards, so decides to teach…

It is still early for courgettes/zucchini/zucchine, I know. That said, the new-season varieties are now starting to…