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“Free” – Oggi Cucino’s New Italian Gluten-free Magazine
While traveling recently, I had the occasion to browse a local newsstand looking for some light reading and, as usually happens, I ended up browsing the culinary… Read more »
Room for the Gluten-free at Florence’s 2014 Biennale Enogastronomica
November is usually a rainy month in Florence, and this year has been no exception. Visitors to this Tuscan town, however, are in for a pleasant treat…. Read more »
Gluten-free Brownies
My maternal grandmother Edna always made THE. BEST. BROWNIES. While I realize this is a common claim, I speak the truth. Few desserts of hers came out… Read more »
Gluten-free Frittelle di Riso
Frittelle di riso, or sweet fried rice balls, are the dessert of choice on the Italian Father’s Day, which falls on March 19th, the Feast of San… Read more »
Tuscan Carnivale and Where to Find Gluten-free Fare
Italian Carnevale is the period of revelry before the pre-Easter period of Lenten fasting. It is most famously celebrated in cities like Venice and Viareggio, but even… Read more »
Gluten-free Chocolate-Covered and Candied Sardinian Orange and Lemon Peels, or Canditi
Each winter, Daniele’s father makes a trip to the island of Sardinia to visit family relatives and, especially, Daniele’s grandparents who have retired back to the seacoast… Read more »
Room for Gluten-free Growth: Florence’s Fiera del Cioccolato Artigianale 2014
“Chocolate is gluten-free.” It’s hard not to feel your blood start to boil while you are spoken to as if you were somehow oblivious to culinary 101… Read more »
Truffles of Love and Some “Baci,” Gluten-free!
I remember when I was a little girl in Paris, my mother would take me to the Chocolatier once a year around Christmas time before we would… Read more »
Fall Time in Tuscany: Picking Marroni in the Mugello
It is early morning and still grey and foggy in the valley when we pile in the jeep to leave the farm, but in the family’s chestnut… Read more »
Gluten-free Scottish Shortbread
My Scottish grandmother, Betty, was famous for her shortbread. Unlike many, she always willingly shared her recipe. When others would inevitably lament that theirs never came out… Read more »