Cooking with an Italian accent

By Giulia Scarpaleggia

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Ciao, I am Giulia Scarpaleggia, a Tuscan born and bred country girl, a home cook, a food writer and a photographer. I teach Tuscan cooking classes in my house in the countryside in between Siena and Florence. I’ve been sharing honest, reliable Italian recipes for 10 years now, through my cookbooks and our blog Juls' Kitchen.If you love everything about Italian food, big crowded tables and seasonal ingredients, join us and follow our podcast “Cooking with an Italian accent“.Visit: www.julskitchen.comInstagram: https://instagram.com/julskitchen/

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2x05 - All about the tradit...

12.15.2021

Subscribe to our newsletter, Letters from Tuscany: https://julskitchen.substack.com/Use this link to get 10% off for 1 year: https://julskitchen.substack.com/podcast10The best way to understand the Tuscan pastry art is to have a walk in Siena with an open mind, following the trail ...

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12.15.2021 2x05 - All about the traditional Tuscan sweet treats [Christmas Special] Subscribe to our newsletter, Letters from Tuscany: https://julskitchen.substack.com/Use this link to get 10% off for 1 year: https://julskitchen.substack.com/podcast10The best way to understand the Tuscan pastry art is to have a walk in Siena with an open mind, following the trail ...
08.17.2021 2x04 - Life in Salento: in conversation with Nina Gigante Subscribe to our newsletter, Letters from Tuscany: https://julskitchen.substack.com/Use this link to get 10% off for 1 year: https://julskitchen.substack.com/podcast10In today’s episode we’re travelling southward, towards the heel of the boot of the Italian peninsula, Salento. Today’s guest is Nina Gigante, a ...
08.10.2021 2x03 - Trentino and mountain life: in conversation with Vea Carpi of Mas del Saro Subscribe to our newsletter, Letters from Tuscany: https://julskitchen.substack.com/Use this link to get 10% off for 1 year: https://julskitchen.substack.com/podcast10In this episode of Cooking with an Italian Accent, we travel to the mountains to visit my friend Vea Carpi. She is a ...
08.03.2021 2x02 - Liguria e Cinque Terre: in conversation with Enrica Monzani of A small kitchen in Genoa Subscribe to our newsletter, Letters from Tuscany: https://julskitchen.substack.com/Use this link to get 10% off for 1 year: https://julskitchen.substack.com/podcast10In this episode of Cooking with an Italian Accent, as promised, we have a guest that will guide us through one of the ...
07.27.2021 2x01 - Let's celebrate: Happy (40th) Birthday Giulia! Subscribe to our newsletter, Letters from Tuscany: https://julskitchen.substack.com/Use this link to get 10% off for 1 year: https://julskitchen.substack.com/podcast10This is the first episode of our second season, a special summer edition, a short collection of 4 episodes. In this episode of ...
05.18.2021 EP46 - A celebration of Spring in a Tuscan kitchen Subscribe to our newsletter, Letters from Tuscany: https://julskitchen.substack.com/Use this link to get 10% off for 1 year: https://julskitchen.substack.com/podcast10In this episode of Cooking with an Italian Accent we celebrate the spring season, its produce, with asparagus, fresh peas, fava beans and ...
03.20.2021 EP45 - How to maintain a long-term relationship with your blog Subscribe to our newsletter, Letters from Tuscany: https://julskitchen.substack.com/Use this link to get 10% off for 1 year: https://julskitchen.substack.com/podcast10In this episode of Cooking with an Italian Accent I’m going back over our past 12 years of blogging, and I’ll share with ...
03.05.2021 EP44 - On risotto Subscribe to our newsletter, Letters from Tuscany: https://julskitchen.substack.com/Use this link to get 10% off for 1 year: https://julskitchen.substack.com/podcast10In this episode of Cooking with an Italian Accent I’m sharing why I love risotto, and why I find it is a therapeutic ...
12.23.2020 EP43 - Food and motherhood Subscribe to our newsletter, Letters from Tuscany: https://julskitchen.substack.com/Use this link to get 10% off for 1 year: https://julskitchen.substack.com/podcast10From the last episode of this podcast, a few things have changed. Summer has gone, leaving space to a bright, mild Tuscan autumn, ...
08.17.2020 EP42 - In conversation with: Irina Georgescu, author of Carpathia Subscribe to our newsletter, Letters from Tuscany: https://julskitchen.substack.com/Use this link to get 10% off for 1 year: https://julskitchen.substack.com/podcast10Before a well-deserved pause to welcome our baby girl into the world, and to get used to a completely new life, I’m so ...
07.20.2020 EP41 – Everything you want to know about pound cake Subscribe to our newsletter, Letters from Tuscany: https://julskitchen.substack.com/Use this link to get 10% off for 1 year: https://julskitchen.substack.com/podcast10In today’s episode we’ll be talking in details about the pound cake, known as quattro quarti in Italian. This is probably the cake ...
07.12.2020 EP40 - Get to know us better Subscribe to our newsletter, Letters from Tuscany: https://julskitchen.substack.com/Use this link to get 10% off for 1 year: https://julskitchen.substack.com/podcast10We reached the 40th episode of our podcast "Cooking with an Italian Accent"! So it's time to celebrate and to recap what we’ve ...
06.11.2020 EP39 - Three books about Italian cooking you must have Subscribe to our newsletter, Letters from Tuscany: https://julskitchen.substack.com/Use this link to get 10% off for 1 year: https://julskitchen.substack.com/podcast10oday we are talking about cookbooks. When I was organizing my cookbooks on the bookshelves, I rediscovered some favourites from the past that ...
05.27.2020 EP38 - Our virtual Tuscan cooking class Subscribe to our newsletter, Letters from Tuscany: https://julskitchen.substack.com/Use this link to get 10% off for 1 year: https://julskitchen.substack.com/podcast10Juls’ Kitchen is a family business. Tommaso and I work together to teach classes, develop recipes for clients, taking photos, producing the podcast, ...
05.15.2020 EP37 - In conversation with: Regula Ysewijn, food writer Subscribe to our newsletter, Letters from Tuscany: https://julskitchen.substack.com/Use this link to get 10% off for 1 year: https://julskitchen.substack.com/podcast10This is a special episode with a dear friend, Regula Ysewijn. We met in London in 2011, at the Food Blogger Connect, and ...
04.24.2020 EP36 - How do you learn to cook? Subscribe to our newsletter, Letters from Tuscany: https://julskitchen.substack.com/Use this link to get 10% off for 1 year: https://julskitchen.substack.com/podcast10One of the few positive aspects of this eternal lockdown is that I had the chance to learn new recipes and techniques. Usually, ...
04.17.2020 EP35 - Cooking during the lockdown Subscribe to our newsletter, Letters from Tuscany: https://julskitchen.substack.com/Use this link to get 10% off for 1 year: https://julskitchen.substack.com/podcast10I didn’t think my way of cooking would change much during the lockdown. I thought I was already quite organised, with a well-stocked ...
04.03.2020 EP34 - What is comfort food for you? Subscribe to our newsletter, Letters from Tuscany: https://julskitchen.substack.com/Use this link to get 10% off for 1 year: https://julskitchen.substack.com/podcast10There are two different aspects of comfort food: on one side, there’s the food that gives you comfort and pleasure when you eat ...
02.24.2020 EP33 - What is food for me Subscribe to our newsletter, Letters from Tuscany: https://julskitchen.substack.com/Use this link to get 10% off for 1 year: https://julskitchen.substack.com/podcast10After 11 years of blogging, a love born by stirring a ciambellone on a kitchen stool with mum, 5 cookbooks, a podcast, countless ...
02.01.2020 EP32 - Chestnuts and chestnut flour in Tuscan cuisine Subscribe to our newsletter, Letters from Tuscany: https://julskitchen.substack.com/Use this link to get 10% off for 1 year: https://julskitchen.substack.com/podcast10Today buying good quality chestnut flour can be difficult, and it is certainly more expensive than it used to be. A good local ...
01.24.2020 EP31 - Celebrating the citrus season Subscribe to our newsletter, Letters from Tuscany: https://julskitchen.substack.com/Use this link to get 10% off for 1 year: https://julskitchen.substack.com/podcast10Today I am here to celebrate the citrus season, with their brightness, the joy they add to cold winter days, the liveliness they ...
01.15.2020 EP30 - (cook)book review: “Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat” by Samin Nosrat Subscribe to our newsletter, Letters from Tuscany: https://julskitchen.substack.com/Use this link to get 10% off for 1 year: https://julskitchen.substack.com/podcast10I learnt to cook from my grandmother, watching her patiently stirring a pot of ragù, or foraging herbs in the fields to make ...
01.08.2020 EP29 - My 2020 word: intentionality Until a few years ago, come January I would write a list of goals and good intentions. I felt productive, optimist, effective. Within a few months, though, that list would mark the measure of my failures. Now I choose a ...
12.23.2019 EP28 - Have yourself a very Tuscan Christmas! How would I describe my ideal Christmas? Which are the first words that come to my mind when I think about Christmas?This year, I would pick humble. Humble as the unassuming log that the head of the family would put ...
12.16.2019 EP27 - My favourite Christmas cookbook: Nigel Slater’s The Christmas Chronicles [Bonus Track] Subscribe to our newsletter, Letters from Tuscany: https://julskitchen.substack.com/Use this link to get 10% off for 1 year: https://julskitchen.substack.com/podcast10This is a bonus episode, a small precious gift for you in the days waiting for Christmas. Today I’m going to share with ...
11.23.2019 EP26 - Milan, foodie tips to explore the city, with Myriam Sabolla Until a few years ago, when we wanted to be inspired, try new foods and restaurants, breath some fresh air and live an exciting adventure, we would fly to London.In the recent years though, especially after the 2015 Expo, we ...
11.06.2019 EP25 - Italians and overcooked vegetables Today’s theme is vegetables, but not any kind of vegetables. I am here to praise the charm of overcooked vegetables. Not all vegetables give their best when cooked for long time, some get soggy and unpalatable, but take French beans, ...
10.26.2019 EP24 - In conversation with: Frantoio Pruneti about Extra Virgin Olive Oil One of the ingredients that has always caused more questions and doubts during my cooking classes is olive oil. I’ve grown up worshipping olive oil as key ingredient in Tuscan cooking, it is still my favourite one. I’ve given for ...
10.19.2019 EP23 - A Tuscan pantry If you are passionate about Italian and Tuscan cuisine and want to explore the staple ingredients, if you are about to move on your own and you need to stock up your pantry from zero, or if you, like me, ...
10.04.2019 EP22 - Juls' Kitchen Tuscan cooking classes This has been the most intense and rewarding cooking class season so far. Today I want to bring you with me during a cooking class. I’ve been teaching Tuscan cooking classes for 8 years now, since I left my 9-to-5 ...
09.11.2019 EP21 - In conversation with: Juliana Lopez May I’ve bene knowing Juliana Lopez May for three years now. She is an Argentinian chef and cooking instructor that every September brings a group of women from South America to Italy, and to our Studio. We spend a day together ...
09.04.2019 EP20 - September: Grape harvest and grape recipes September as the new January, September with that back to school feeling: a new diary, blank pages, a sharp pencil. September as a month to begin again, a time for new goals, new resolutions. I love September for all these ...
08.28.2019 EP19 - Let’s cook together: ricotta crumb cake Since a June dinner in Val d’Orcia at Villa Pienza, I’ve been making a ricotta crumb cake at least once a week, during cooking classes and when we had friends over for dinner, trying out different combinations of flour, fruit ...
08.21.2019 EP18 - Siena, foodie tips to explore this medieval city This is a special episode inspired by the Siena with gusto foodie guide we recently published for Travel WithGusto. Siena is a medieval city, my university town, the place where we love to go out during the weekend, or for ...
08.14.2019 EP17 - Preserving the season: Summer Both my mum and my grandma influenced my love for preserving.It would be reductive to describe it as a habit or a hobby; I feel an ancient urge to bottle, can, or preserve whatever the season offers with abundance. It ...
07.24.2019 EP16 - In conversation with: Luisa of Agriturismo Il Rigo A chat with Luisa Cipolla of Agriturismo il Rigo, in Val d’Orcia, about one of the most beautiful parts of Tuscany, about life in an agriturismo, food and wild flowers.Recipes mentioned in this episode:- A few photos and a recipe ...
07.17.2019 EP15 - Fragments of Summer and seasonal effortless cooking Recipes mentioned in this episode:- Effortless summer cooking: https://en.julskitchen.com/seasonal/summer/effortless-summer-cooking - French bean salad with hard boiled eggs and olives: https://en.julskitchen.com/salads/french-bean-salad- Pasta with tuna, parsley, basil and capers: https://en.julskitchen.com/first-course/pasta-first-course/pasta-with-tuna- Fried green tomato frittata: https://en.julskitchen.com/main/fried-green-tomato-frittata I’d love to hear from you: which ...
06.26.2019 EP14 - Eating during the summer heatwave Recipes mentioned in this episode:Panzanella: https://en.julskitchen.com/first-course/tuscan-panzanella-tomato-bread-salad Caprese: https://en.julskitchen.com/tuscany/tuscan-panzanella Baked eggplants: https://en.julskitchen.com/side/baked-eggplants I’d love to hear from you: how do you face a heatwave? Do you cook or you just avoid it as long as you can? Which is your perfect ...
06.19.2019 EP13 - Let's cook together: Zuppa Inglese Before listening to this episode, be sure to have these ingredients in your pantry, as we’ll cook together:-500 ml (2.11 cups) fresh whole milk-1/2 vanilla bean, split open-2 eggs-4 tablespoons sugar-2 tablespoons corn starch-80 g (2.82 oz) dark chocolate -Alchermes-Savoiardi, ...
06.09.2019 EP12 - Get hungry with Tuscan PDO and PGI products - Buy Food Toscana Subscribe to our newsletter, Letters from Tuscany: https://julskitchen.substack.com/Use this link to get 10% off for 1 year: https://julskitchen.substack.com/podcast10BuyFood Toscana is an event organized by the Region of Tuscany and PromoFirenze, aiming to the promotion of the Tuscan PDO and PGI ...
05.29.2019 EP11 - About inspiration A talk on creativity and lack of inspiration and a list to keep you inspired, no matter what, from reading to gardening, from walking to visiting new places.I’d love to hear from you: what is that keeps you inspired instead? ...
05.22.2019 EP10 - In conversation with: Judy Witts Francini A talk with Judy Witts Francini, Italian life coach, culinary concierge and guide, about Italian and Tuscan food, cooking classes and food tours in Puglia and Sicily, learning how to cook and eating out in Tuscany.Learn more about Judy and ...
05.15.2019 EP9 - Street Food in Tuscany Things we talked about in this episode: - street food in Tuscany- street food in Florence: panino al lampredotto- street food on the Tuscan coast: torta di ceci or cecina- schiacciata- bomboloni and frati- gelatoRecipes mentioned in this episode: - ...
04.17.2019 EP8 - An Easter menu Things we talked about in this episode: - A Tuscan Easter menu- Eggs for Easter- Lamb for Easter- Ricotta for Easter- Spring vegetables Recipes mentioned in this episode: - Spinach and ricotta tortelli https://en.julskitchen.com/first-course/fresh-pasta/spinach-ricotta-tortelli - Torta pasqualina https://en.julskitchen.com/vegetarian/torta-pasqualina-my-mums-spinach-and-ricotta-pie - Roasted ...
04.03.2019 EP7 - Vegetarian, vegan, Gluten free, but totally traditional! Things we talked about in this episode: -Tuscan people and their love for beans-Vegetarian and vegan recipes in Tuscan cuisine-Gluten free recipes in Tuscan cuisineRecipes mentioned in this episode: -Pappa al Pomodoro: https://en.julskitchen.com/tuscany/best-pappa-al-pomodoro -Panzanella: https://en.julskitchen.com/tuscany/tuscan-panzanella-tomato-bread-salad -Ribollita: https://en.julskitchen.com/first-course/soup/bean-and-bread-soup -Acquacotta: https://en.julskitchen.com/tuscany/acquacotta-tuscan-soup -Potato ...
03.23.2019 EP6 - In conversation with: Tessa Kiros Today’s episode is quite special. We recorded it a few days ago at the St. Mark Cultural Association for Florence Writers, where Tessa Kiros and I had a conversation with David Orr about cooking and writing. Tessa Kiros is the ...
03.17.2019 EP5 - Food Markets: what you can buy there Things we talked about in this episode: - Markets of Tuscany, A cookbook - Indoor and historic markets in Tuscany- Weekly markets and what you can buy there- Farmers markets in TuscanyRecipes mentioned in this episode: - Pork loin with ...
03.08.2019 EP4 - Carnival time. All I love about carnival food. Things we talked about in this episode:Recipes mentioned in this episode: - Cenci: https://en.julskitchen.com/tuscany/carnival-fried-dough-the-tuscan-cenci- Frittelle: https://en.julskitchen.com/tuscany/italian-carnival-rice-fritters - Schiacciata alla Fiorentina: https://en.julskitchen.com/dessert/schiacciata-alla-fiorentina-a-sweet-flatbread-for-carnival - Bomboloni: https://en.julskitchen.com/dessert/bomboloni-the-italian-doughnuts I’d love to hear from you: do you like Carnival? Is there a special treat you ...
02.27.2019 EP3 - Tuscan bread, the staple of Tuscan cooking Subscribe to our newsletter, Letters from Tuscany: https://julskitchen.substack.com/Use this link to get 10% off for 1 year: https://julskitchen.substack.com/podcast10Things we talked about in this episode:- The Dinner Sister Podcast https://dinnersisters.com/podcast/2019/2/17/dinnerparty-italian-winter - Pane toscano, or the Tuscan bread made without salt- History ...
02.13.2019 EP2 - Becoming Us Things we talked about in this episode:- Becoming us- Michelle Obama and her memoir “Becoming”- Local pig breeds in Tuscany - Cinta Senese https://en.julskitchen.com/first-course/fresh-pasta/cinta-senese-meat-sauce- How to make the perfect roasted pork loin, or “arista”- Samin Nostrat and her book “Salt, ...

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