Italy is where I cook and most enjoy cooking. It’s where my adopted home is and where I started writing my culinary blog from our apartment in Rome, at Piazza del Popolo, the entry to the historical part of the Eternal City.

I arrived with the Dégustateur to Rome a decade ago and it has been an extraordinary and life changing journey ever since.

In summer 2020 we moved to Venice for a year, initially something of an idea that turned into a magical reality.

A very unpredicted chain of events has caused subsequently Florence to become our new home, for almost two years, and we were happy to have taken that decision and were equally looking forward to embracing what the city of The Renaissance and the region of Tuscany has to offer. A very informative and exciting part of our lives that I will cherish forever.

After returning to London for a temporary period, where I had lived, studied, worked and met the Dégustatuer, we turned the page yet again. We closed the doors of our little house in this ever bustling and vibrant capital city and opened the bottle-green doors of our yellow house in Venice, living and fulfilling a fantasy of ours. Something we had felt that may never happen again. Indeed, what a dreamy start to the New Year of 2026.

We’ve resumed our ’Venetian routine’ ambling through the narrow alleyways whilst romanticising the world, the inevitable effect that La Serenissima spells on everyone. The Rialto Market is the epicenter of our food provisioning from which I conjure up home-made, fresh and plentiful meals that we love to share with the new friends we’ve made here. Otherwise, we discover new trattorias in Venice or share an intimate dinner at out new home.
How long will we live in this breathtaking yet challenging city for? We don’t know exactly what the future holds for us, but good food relished with loved ones will alway be paramount, and I truly hope that our Italian roots will deepen.

I share my time between Italy and Poland, but it is Rome, Florence and now Venice where I have been able to dedicate a lot of my time to this wonderful culinary journey. Here is where my blog was born with the aim to share my growing interest, passion and experience.
There aren’t many things that make me happier than learning that someone has enjoyed reading my blog posts and even better, cooked from it. It’s my greatest reward from writing it, but it’s also helped me, involuntarily, over the years make new friendships and meet so many interesting and curious, creative people.

I am lucky enough to be able to travel extensively increasing my gastronomic knowledge, immersing myself in local culture, exploring the historical origins of food and its regionality.
On a daily basis I am inspired by the amazing choice and variety of the seasonal produce found in the local markets. At the same time I adore incorporating new ideas, methods and flavour combinations that I’ve had an opportunity to taste whilst travelling.

I am not a trained chef, I am a cook who loves to learn, discover, recreate the local and regional cuisine of Italy in our humble kitchen and reads cook books before falling asleep.
I am a great believer in the philosophy: “Life is too short to ever have a bad meal”. The quality of ingredients is of crucial importance to me and they should be treated with respect.
In Italian: Hai mangiato? means: Have you eaten? It is the question that I love to ask my friends and relatives.

Cooking for other people brings me so much joy . By gathering at the same table and sharing the same food, it gives us an opportunity or even an excuse to spend time together, pause, share stories and the moment…