A tantalizing taste of Genoa
I had only half a day to explore Genoa, but thanks to a well-informed friend and the thoroughly researched book Food Wine: The Italian Riviera and Genoa I put every minute to edible use.
Entries by Rosa Jackson
A pint-sized garden
Some boys love trucks, others go mad for motorcycles: my son is crazy about cacti and just about anything else that grows.
Slow Fish
Genoa is a place that, until now, I had always driven through without stopping: with so many charming towns to choose from along the Italian Riviera, somehow it seemed too big and daunting.
Navarin d’agneau – Spring lamb stew
Easter weekend was the perfect time to cooknavarin d’agneau, a dish that I first came across many years ago while working as an interpreter at the Cordon Bleu cooking school.
Cooking with La Capelina d’Or
The Niçois love to argue, and nothing provokes a better argument than the subject of how to make one of their classic dishes.
A week on the Elle diet
When I decided it was time to shed a couple of extra kilos before spring, it was natural to turn to my extensive collection of Elle magazines.
Pizza in Marseille
For most people Marseille means bouillabaisse, the once-humble fisherman’s stew that has come to symbolize the city’s rich cultural mix. But, as we drove to Marseille, I had one thing on my mind: pizza.
The best way to cook broccoli
I have my friend Caterina to thank for this ridiculously simple and ridiculously delicious way to tackle a vegetable that many people find uninspiring.
The future of French shopping?
You might think of Parisiennes as stylish women who take pleasure in shopping at markets and whipping up sumptuous meals with seasonal ingredients. You would be right about the stylish part.
Meyer lemon jam
The first few times I bought these orange-tinted lemons with a bergamot scent from the woman who I will forever think of as the Meyer lemon lady, she couldn’t resist asking me if I knew what I was doing.