Jonah's arms are growing longer by the day

Cooking with the beautiful Christina! We were a bit nervous before discovering how lovely she was.

Plenty of tips and stories from her years as chef and sommelier

Exultation as Christina declared "perfecto" upon observing my pasta ball!

Elliot is now keen to try his skills at home. His plan is for a broccoli risotto!

Round 3: Tirimisu. After this, the pasta and the risotto we didn't need much for dinner.

Happy faces after a fun day in the kitchen.

Partying is such sweet sorrow

December 31, 2022 in Italy ⋅ ⛅ 9 °C

Our last day in Verona

We started the day at Juliet's house...

(Ok, The house that was the inspiration for Juliet...OK, just some place in Verona that reminds people of the house so they stuck a statue there so that people would pay to get a grope of a well worn bronze orb)

and ended with the Piazza Bra NYE bash.

The highlight, however, was a simple cooking class that had all five members of the family enraptured. It will leave fond memories for a life time, but will also damn us to eternal frustration as we try to emulate our one moment of making perfect risotto and pasta from scratch.Read more