Notes from Emiko’s Kitchen

Thank you to those who tuned into my live video with Francesco Turrisi! In case you missed it last Sunday, click above to hear us chat about Italian food traditions, cookbook writing and similarities between Japan and Italy, amongst many other things. It was very easy to chat to Francesco, who is an Italian based in Ireland, as you can see!One of the recipes we talked about was my comfort food that I often make for my kids (in fact, one of them is asking for me to make them a bowl of it right now as

Thank you for being here! I recently attended a whirlwind 2 day conference on Women in Food hosted by Corriere della Sera, one of Italy’s main newspapers. It was moving, exhilarating, empowering and inspiring, if anything because of being simply in the presence of sixty women who count food as their major passion, their salvation, their identity or their livelihood (see some highlights here on Instagram). I was asked to give a 15 minute lesson on how to write about food and when the editors asked me