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Walking along Fondamente Nove on a limpid day, you can make out a long island in the distance, stretching forever behind La Certosa: This is Sant’Erasmo, the greenest spot in the Lagoon. Such a bounty grows on Sant’Erasmo, the island of artichokes and vineyards. It’s home to the finest ingredients, tasting slightly of sea salt,…
Risi e Bisi (garden pea risotto) is a favorite spring dish in Venice: By mid-April, the Rialto Market looks like this, and everyone who loves fresh peas will feel like heaven: You’ll see peas of all sizes, from the estuary, the northern Lagoon, and even from southern Italy (Campania, south of Salerno). So it’s really…
The last day of the year in Venice was very sunny, all pearl skies, like a hopeful ray of sun and outlook for the year ahead .. A fine spot to enjoy New Year’s Eve – often sunny – is Serra dei Giardini, the garden hothouse on Viale Garibaldi near the Biennale gardens. It has…
Cava – coffee was known to the Venetian mercanti (spice merchants) and spezieri (call them spice experts, for now) as early as in the 12th century. Back then, polvere de cava (dark coffee powder) and roasted coffee beans were considered “just another spice”. And the same was true for sucaro de canna – cane sugar, also considered una spezia (spice)….
August has arrived in Venice, and the Lagoon is as beautiful as always in this strange and unprecedented year. Breathtaking colors and skies, which by mid-August will fuse into something magical, the azure and purple the colors of the “fifth” season (more about that term soon). For now, we’re in the midst of a heatwave…
Staying at an apartment is definitely a change to how you as visitor can experience life in Venice: You will pay much more attention to markets and delicatessen shops, diving deeper into daily life in Venice. If this is your very first stay in Venice, it might be a bit of a plunge, but still,…
Perhaps you have time to bake a Venetian cake this weekend? Adapted to the season, and alleviating any symptoms of cold weather we might be suffering right now. We have a favorite family recipe, based on a historical one, popular in the 13th century Venice. Yes, that’s the time when Marco Polo’s family was living here…