Summary: Subscribe to our newsletter, Letters from Tuscany: <a href="https://julskitchen.substack.com/" rel="noopener">https://julskitchen.substack.com/</a><br>Use this link to get 10% off for 1 year: <a href="https://julskitchen.substack.com/podcast10" rel="noopener">https://julskitchen.substack.com/podcast10</a><br><br>After 11 years of blogging, a love born by stirring a ciambellone on a kitchen stool with mum, 5 cookbooks, a podcast, countless projects never launched or lost along the way, and numerous dreams kept among the pages of a notebook, I keep asking myself what is food for me.<br>I haven’t grown tired of writing recipes. For a while, I wondered if it was enough, if I wasn’t dumbing down a topic bigger than me. Then I realised that food is enough for itself and, at the same time, it crosses borders.<br>Food has been an instrument of personal growth and self-affirmation, a lens through which I could discover the external world and explore my inner universe, sometimes all the more complex and multifaceted.<br>Food is tradition: I better understood who I am through traditional recipes, those from Tuscany and those from Basilicata, where the southern branch of my family is from.<br>Food is discovery. The work of food is a craftsman’s job, in which you progress with small steps, with perseverance, with a clear attention to beauty and detail. Craft is humble, more tangible than art, but it retains a human warmth, dedication and commitment. <br><br>What is food for you? Does it have a special meaning, or a value? Or is it more related to planning, or enjoying? Is it a way to release your stress, or to affirm yourself? Or both, as in my case?<br><br>On the blog:<br>- Ciambellone: <a href="https://en.julskitchen.com/dessert/cakes-pies/a-tuscan-bundt-cake" rel="noopener">https://en.julskitchen.com/dessert/cakes-pies/a-tuscan-bundt-cake</a> <br>- Crostata: <a href="https://en.julskitchen.com/dessert/cakes-pies/whole-wheat-crostata-with-lemon-marmalade" rel="noopener">https://en.julskitchen.com/dessert/cakes-pies/whole-wheat-crostata-with-lemon-marmalade</a> <br>- Pappa al pomodoro: <a href="https://en.julskitchen.com/first-course/soup/best-pappa-al-pomodoro" rel="noopener">https://en.julskitchen.com/first-course/soup/best-pappa-al-pomodoro</a> <br>- Grandma’s lasagne: <a href="https://en.julskitchen.com/first-course/fresh-pasta/grandmas-lasagne" rel="noopener">https://en.julskitchen.com/first-course/fresh-pasta/grandmas-lasagne</a> <br>- Meatball pasta bake: <a href="https://en.julskitchen.com/first-course/pasta-first-course/meatball-pasta-bake" rel="noopener">https://en.julskitchen.com/first-course/pasta-first-course/meatball-pasta-bake</a> <br>- Calzoncelli: <a href="https://en.julskitchen.com/dessert/cookies/calzoncelli-chocolate-almond-christmas-cookies" rel="noopener">https://en.julskitchen.com/dessert/cookies/calzoncelli-chocolate-almond-christmas-cookies</a> <br><br>Find me online at <a href="http://www.julskitchen.com" rel="noopener">www.julskitchen.com</a> or on Instagram <a href="https://instagram.com/julskitchen/" rel="noopener">https://instagram.com/julskitchen/</a> <br><br>Join our Facebook Group Cooking with Juls’ Kitchen: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/775325049335625/" rel="noopener">https://www.facebook.com/groups/775325049335625/</a><br><br>Podcast realized by <a href="https://instagram.com/tommyonweb" rel="noopener">https://instagram.com/tommyonweb</a>
