Beer and Extra-Virgin Olive Oil Flat Bread (Pizza Scima alla Birra)

It has become a tradition now to kick off the new year with a bread-dedicated post. After all, I am a self-confessed avid baker (read “bread-baking addict”) and very little else elevates my culinary spirit to blissful excitement more than kneading, beating and shaping a starchy good. I have spent the last couple of weeks…

White wine and Olive oil flat bread (Pizza Scima)

The last days of my holiday in Torricella Peligna, my mum’s home-village in the mountains of Abruzzo, are fast approaching. I always feel a deep sense of sadness at the thought of leaving this charming place. Every street, every narrow lane and alley, is embedded with strong childhood memories of feeling free, utopistic and adventurous,…