I usually drink tea first thing in the morning, but since we got a coffee grinder, I’ve been making stovetop espresso coffee. I LOVE hearing that metallic whirrrrrr pulverizing the beans first thing in the morning. It gets me excited to start the day. We have two stovetop coffee pots at home, a 1-cup and a 6 cup. Both the classic Bialetti, otherwise known as the Moka Express. A moka pot is the common word…
“Dude, dude. We got a situation,” Davide said to me, meaning only one thing. I had just felt the first rumble of my stomach and was so excited he was hungry, too. I sunk to one knee and did a fist pump. “YES!” It was a hot afternoon in the Veneto and we were at his parents. They were taking a nap and it was the perfect moment to sneak out of the house and…
Now that it’s April, the memories of summers in Italy come pouring in and unless I do something about it, I’m going to sit here on the sofa for the rest of the afternoon in an Italian reverie ignoring the grey clouds of London outside. It’s time for a mint limonata.