The wild boar festival in Ostra made a big impression on Elke and Otto last year. How can we blame them? Our sagra tradition is very strongly rooted in Le Marche. Indeed, I have just had a friend visiting from Norway, and he couldn’t believe his eyes when taking a Read more…
The Italian nonnas, the grannies, still know how to make the best pasta themselves, like our Nonna Franca, who shared her passatelli recipe with us for the blog. I was lucky enough to have my own Nonna Italia to show me how to prepare the perfect pasta and, although I Read more…
Some dishes are incredibly linked not only to one region, but rather to just one village. Calcioni in Serra San Quirico is one example that we talked about some time ago and Tagliatelle fritte in Monterubbiano is our latest tasting. Although the name is the same used for some Carnival Read more…
Christmas season is as busy as summer and every year it gets really difficult to choose which activity attend to! Isabelle recently opted for a guided walk and show cooking in Cingoli, being tempted by the traditional Christmas pastries cavallucci. At 3 p.m. the organizers of Travelearn expected the participants Read more…
I am writing this post with crumbles of cookies sbagliati (wrong cookies) everywhere. What is wrong with these cookies, you may ask. Well, they are delicious yet original cookies with white chocolate, cocoa powder and..salt. An unusual mix of ingredients as unusual as the protagonists of this story: Jacopo, Gian-Luca Read more…
Elke’s husband, Otto, has restored two old bar espresso machines from the 70s and 80s and loves to optimally set the machine to a carefully selected type of coffee, so that an almost heavenly drink comes out. Who could be a better story-teller that Elke, then, to tell us about Read more…