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Notes from the giardino

Recipes, harvest notes and stories from the garden, written by whoever has a free hour between lunch and dinner.

Nonna Rosa’s Margherita, at home

You won’t have a 450° oven. You can still make a pizza she would recognise.

Eleven days, forty pickers and the earliest Sangiovese we can remember.

Genovese for the pizza, lemon basil for the limonata, and one we can’t name.

Between the lunch tables clearing and the oven being fed again, there is a quiet hour.

Luca tried to improve it once. We don’t talk about that summer.