Italian by birth and based in Britain, I've run the well-established pastabites.co.uk food and travel blog for over a decade and my work has also appeared in Lonely Planet Italia, Food & Wine Italia, Olive, Chiswick Magazine, Hi Europe to name a few. I live in London with my husband, our young son and our beautiful basset fauve. I love writing about food, travel and particularly about my obsession, scuba diving.
Il futuro del mare
Una volontaria della Marine Conservation Society dialoga con Jack Clarke, sustainable seafood advocate della onlus britannica per la salvaguardia dei mari: dalla Good Fish Guide alla spesa degli chef
“Attenta, che se lo guardi, ti metti a piangere”, mi avevano avvertito tutti. Non avrei neanche avuto bisogno di vedere il discusso documentario Seaspiracy, perché i temi che tratta li conosco da tempo. Anni fa, in un ristorante, riuscii a far arrabbiare in un solo colpo lo chef, il cameriere e l...
Dal giardino al mixer
Al Black Swan di Oldstead, nel Regno Unito, i fratelli Banks abbinano una grande cucina “di casa” a cocktail fantasiosi con erbe, bacche e fiori.
«Non abbiamo mai in mente un cocktail particolare, sono gli ingredienti che ci guidano. Quello che troviamo nei campi, ecco, quello finiamo per usare». Seamus Hooley è al Black Swan di Oldstead dal 2017 e di ingredienti qui ne ha in abbondanza. Gli basta uscire sul retro del ristorante, oltrepassare le camere a disposizione di chi trascorre un weeke...
Introducing Stefano de Costanzo, pastry chef with Giorgio Locatelli in London
The young chef from Foggia teams up with the celebrity chef from Locanda Locatelli. His career took off when he was noticed by Gordon Ramsay…
A few weeks ago, as part of the expert jury of a gelato competition, we found ourselves joined by two compatriots. On our left, a tall, young man wearing chef’s whites. We obviously asked him immediately where he worked: "I'm at Locanda Locatelli" - he replied smiling.
It took us a little bit to realise he was in fact the head pastry chef of the aforeme...
London during COVID: Italian chefs and their efforts
Francesco Mazzei and Danilo Cortellini have been involved in charitable and solidarity initiatives in the British capital
"How's it going in London?" - twe get this question every day from our folks in Italy since the beginning of the pandemic, probably to understand the differences between the more restrictive Italian lockdown and the rather vague measures imposed on us by the Johnson government.
One of the differences with Italy - at least with most of the regions - is that here a few resta...
Two and a Half to Bandos
A two-year-old along for the ride was no bar to diving for Federica Squadrilli Carr, but her son was far from the only non-diver at one of the Maldives’ oldest resorts
shakky!” shouts our tiny toddler, pointing excitedly towards the shallow reef below the deck. In the crystal waters, juvenile blacktip reef sharks calmly zig-zag between rocks and corals, scouting for snacks.
We’re in Bandos, one of the oldest resorts in the Maldives (opened in 1976); it is also one of the closest to the airpor...
hiEurope issue 45: Jul/Aug 2019
The cover page is the Roman Baths, UK, Picture by Oliemtdog/iStock/Getty Image Plus.
Mon Sciù: passeggiata nel cuore di Napoli per una merenda creativa e originale
Se cercate una sfogliatella, andate altrove. Da Mon Sciù infatti, della classica pasticceria partenopea c’è ben poco nonostante in cucina ci sia una napoletana verace. Chiara Cianciaruso in città ci è nata e cresciuta ma, una volta arrivata ai vent’anni, fu presa dalla voglia di esplorare il mondo. Si imbarcò su lussuosi yatch e girò i mari e gli oceani, lavorando come chef di bordo. E tra una stagione e l’altra, ha vissuto a Parigi, a Bruges, a Londra, imparando l’arte della pasticceria, div...
On the Cilento Coast
Italy’s Amalfi Coast is well-known to tourists, but further east lies the Cilento Coast, where Italians spend their summer holidays but few foreigners reach – and even fewer divers. FEDERICA SQUADRILLI CARR is a regular visitor
Cilento lies south of Salerno, encompassing the stunning Greek temples and mozzarella-producing pastures of Paestum with the national park of Cilento and Vallo di Diano.
The attractive seaside town of Sapri, positioned at the end of an open gulf, completes the picture,...
10 reasons to visit Lavenham England
This reasons to visit Lavenham guest post was written by Federica Carr. Italian by birth and based in Britain, Federica has run the well-established pastabites.co.uk food and travel blog for over a decade and her work has also appeared in Lonely Planet Italia, Food & Wine Italia, Olive, Chiswick Magazine, Hi Europe to name just a few.
10 reasons to visit Lavenham England
Lavenham is a quaint and historic village on the Suffolk / Norfolk border in the east of England. What’s so special about i...