A Volontà: Blog

1. A Faithful Recipe for Scaliddi

   December 15, 2020
   Last Christmas, I visited my aunt Crair for the first of our Calabrese cooking lessons (later, as you can read on this blog, we also made pittuli and ceci e lagani). We made scaliddi, crunchy fried dough swimming in honey. It would not be Christmas without them. To read the…

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2. Ten photographs of Latteria San Marco, Milano

   December 1, 2020
   Two years ago, Erik was sent here for lunch by the designer Barnaba Fornasetti, son of the famous artist and designer, Piero Fornasetti. He arrived at the Latteria San Marco after a tour of Fornasetti’s studio and home. “It was the most splendid afternoon of my life,” Erik says.  “I…

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3. All Souls

   November 22, 2020
   My mother and I were on our way to my aunt’s house to watch her make pasta for All Souls’ Day. We pulled into McDonald’s to get lunch.  “You don’t know what kind of mood she will be in today,” my mother had said. We were due at Crair’s at…

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