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I remember it like that. Beautiful, charming, seductive. His deep gaze staring at me as if to tell me, what are you waiting for? Come here, close to me. I'm waiting for you; can't you see it? I'm hungry, I want you. I feel your sweet perfume and my senses desire your taste. My soul wants to join yours and experience the joy of eternity ... And I, in the warmth of my pulp, was there, immersed in a plate of steaming pasta that was waiting for nothing more than to receive a forkful and brought to his mouth ......

Every year, during the summer, I spent my time at the home of my paternal grandparents. While my grandfather went to work in the fields, my grandmother cultivated the small family garden by herself. A magical place where I saw all kinds of vegetables growing, from broccoli (the classic Neapolitan broccoli) to peppers, from artichokes to different types of tomatoes, round and long tomatoes, up to sweet red and yellow tomatoes. I saw the fruit of the work of my beloved grandmother who spent her days of hard work under the hot sun that darkened her sweat-soaked skin. She worked...

In the underground cellar where the grandparents kept our preserves and home-produced wines in the cool and for a long time, surrounded by cemented brick walls from which dried sausages, cheeses and garlic heads hung, an enormous pantry housed a horizontal expanse on several shelves and vertical of glass jars, called "boccacci", containing peeled tomatoes with thin basil leaves that could be glimpsed timidly from the outside. The moment of the visit to the winery was the most awaited one of the entire summer spent in the countryside. When my grandfather asked my cousins ​​and me to accompany him into...

Do you have a pizzeria? Did you know that in Italy over 50% of pizzerias already use Pronto Pizza? Pronto Pizza is the highest quality tomato pulp, with an intense bright red color, processed very finely after a few hours of harvesting in our fields. Made up of 60%  of 100% Italian-grown tomatoes and 39.9% tomato juice. It is used for the quick preparation of the sauce on pizza because it is ready for use! In fact, it is sufficient to pour the contents of the five-kilo aluminum bag into a container, add half a liter of water and mix...

Delicate, fresh and enveloping. Peaches in syrup taste like a snack on the lawn and picnics, red and white checked tablecloths, conviviality and summer. They must never be missing in my super-stocked wooden pantry, because they can always be useful for preparing a soft fruit cake or a small pastry dessert, to accompany creams, but also ice creams. My grandmother taught me that. Loved by adults but also by children, Peaches in syrup, in their simplicity, are among the most delicious preserves because they are sweet but not too caloric, nutritious and crunchy at the right point. "They also lower...