National Geographic Traveller (UK)

GREAT ITALIAN FOOD JOURNEY

What’s your favourite food-related childhood memory?

Making gnocchi with my mum. We lived close to the sea, so she always used to make wonderful fish sauces with clams and all the fish we could find in the Adriatic Sea. In Italy, the dining table dictates the atmosphere in a house. Growing up, we were nine siblings, and I was the youngest, so food was valuable because we didn’t have very much. Lunch and dinner were very important. We all ate together and shared stories and problems.

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