Category Archives: TRADITION

Artisan or traditional style?

Posted on April 27, 2013 by Heather Jarman

Last week I went with Debra Kolkka to the Mostra Internazionale dell’Artigianato at Florence. You can read her views on it and look at her splendid photos over at her blog. I agree with her that its location in the … Continue reading →

Posted in BEER, CRAFTS, TRADITION | 2 Comments

Weeds for Lunch

Posted on April 19, 2013 by Heather Jarman

Guest blog by Penny Barry I had an adventure last weekend. Heather returned to Cambridge leaving me with a sub-contracted quest deep in the Garfagnana to discover the hidden properties of weeds as food. So what happened? This is my … Continue reading →

Posted in beans, fagioli, FORAGING, SOUP, TRADITION, wild plants | 2 Comments

Fare La Scarpetta

Posted on January 22, 2013 by Heather Jarman

Scarpetta means slipper, but fare la scarpetta doesn’t have anything to do with making slippers. It means to wipe your plate clean with a piece of bread, something all my Italian friends do on informal occasions. There are several opinions about its … Continue reading →

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What makes a good dinner party?

Posted on July 8, 2012 by Heather Jarman

I read recently that dinner parties are going out of fashion in London. Not in Casabasciana. Last night the boar hunting team from our group of three villages threw one of their dinner parties to which I took some cultivated … Continue reading →

Posted in FESTAS, TRADITION | 16 Comments

How do you find…?

Posted on June 11, 2012 by Heather Jarman

This sounds like a question you type into Google, but it’s what my clients ask me when I’ve taken them to a cheese maker on a mountain top or a handloom weaver in an unmarked house in a higgledy-piggledy mediaeval … Continue reading →

Posted in cheese, FESTAS, ICE CREAM / GELATO, RESTAURANT, SEAFOOD, TRADITION, Tuscany | 6 Comments