rachel eats

I have been saving the word sgargarozzare, Waiting for the right moment to use this rough diamond of a Roman word, which turned out to be this week’s Guardian column and a recipe for Focacci...

https://racheleats.wordpress.com/2019/12/18/after-this-one-there-is-another/

Written (and translated into Italian), for Internazionale Extra Menù as part of a series called Visti dagli altri, which more or less translates as (Italy) As seen by Others in May 2019. Editor ...

https://racheleats.wordpress.com/2019/05/07/ricotta-not-a-love-story/

After leaping a year, we are delighted to announce there will be two Language of Food workshops at the Anna Tasca Lanza Cooking school in Sicily this year. The first is the language of Food – S...

https://racheleats.wordpress.com/2018/01/04/the-language-of-food-2018/

Were it not for Testaccio market or Monte Testaccio, the extraordinary ancient Rubbish dump that rises somnolently the bottom corner of this most Roman of Roman quarters, I am pretty sure I would...

https://racheleats.wordpress.com/2017/11/27/pots-and-puntarelle-a-one-off-tour-of-testaccio-with-agnes-crawford-and-rachel-roddy-on-wednesday-6th-december/

. One of the good things about writing recipes here is that I can sign in at any time and change something. The virtual equivalent of being given the chance to pop back home and get something for...

https://racheleats.wordpress.com/2017/01/10/half-tbsp-two-classes-a-dinner-and-6-lines/

I know you have a dozen other things to do, but if you don’t have any in the cupboard, remember to buy a bag of white beans today. Then later – not yet – sit down with a cup of … Continue...

https://racheleats.wordpress.com/2016/12/22/wave/

  Rome in June. It was hot, the air heavy with the tastes and smells of summer pleasures to come, school finished for Luca and I wrote about pasta with beans. Sicily in July. It was even hotter,...

https://racheleats.wordpress.com/2016/08/21/potential-for-rainbows/

The useful recipe is my version of Anna del conte’s daughter’s chocolate and almond cake, which is a bit of a mouthful I know, but in my family cakes always have to have a name attached to t...

https://racheleats.wordpress.com/2016/05/25/useful-rested-and-a-lost-knife/

Sometimes you leave the dishes for a bit to long, other things too. Hello. I have decided that a good way of keeping up here, is to link up to my weekly column in The Guardian every Friday at thi...

https://racheleats.wordpress.com/2016/05/06/sinking-in/

The best laid plans, get turned on their head. Or maybe shuffled is a better word. The timetable Luisa and I had drawn up for The first Language of Food was full but measured, and neatly punctuat...

https://racheleats.wordpress.com/2016/02/03/the-language-of-food-2016/