Learning the hard way

It all seems very luxurous, but by using fresh and local products the  cook  created a delicous but economic lunch Last week I told...

Restaurant Day - The making off…

Everything ready to receive the guests Last weekend it was the first time that Italy participated in the world-wide Restauran...

Hunting the Streets

Signs telling us hunting is allowed You must have noticed it’s autumn. While most people decide to slowly crawl back in their houses (...

Almost there

A typical farm yard in one of the many cascine around Milan Milan has around 60 farms within the borders of the municipality. Many of t...

Cascine aperte

A typical Milanese cascina I do not know a European city which has so many farms within its municipality borders than Milano. After lo...

How do you like it

Restaurants are plenty in Milano and choices are overwhelming. Of course there are the Italians offering food from all the different r...

Mangiare, mangiare, mangiare

Colazione, pranzo, aperativo, cena . Everything in Italy seems to be organized around food. Before you go to work you'll have ...

Graffiti

What has graffiti to do with food? I’ll tell you within a few moments. Milano has a good source of bars, cafes and restaurants. Du...

Stranieri a Milano

I am a stranger in Milano now. And although I don't now many people yet I know I am not alone. For at least half a year I am going t...

Bored by beauty

How to prepare a  decent pasta in such a small kitchen Holiday time! I will take a break next week. Not just to celebrate holiday. I ...

Place making

A run down area is now the centre of a large event What is the most used way to convince a kid to behave the way it should? Yes, to p...

Hot or not

Villa Augustus in the Dutch town Dordrecht is immensely popular by all kind of people I already announced that this weeks’ post will...

Dirty hands

Some months ago I already told about my do-it-yourself-food-growing project . The project is running well and my boyfriend and I hav...

Festivities

Last month we could already enjoy the first days like spring. Warm rays of sun heated our body and made us come out of or dark and moldy ho...

Royal lunch

A lunch like this would be a dream come true In the West people spend less and less time on their lunch. Even in Mediterranean countries ...

Fancy and fat

If you stroll around an average city centre you will find lots of restaurants. I recently found out that there seems to be a clear differen...