Smell – Ale Gambini

February 25, 2014Quote

Bread making is one of those almost hypnotic businesses, like a dance from some ancient ceremony. It leaves you filled with one of the world’s sweetest smells… there is no chiropractic treatment, no Yoga exercise, no hour of meditation in a music-throbbing chapel that will leave you emptier of bad thoughts than this homely ceremony of making bread.”
M.F.K. Fisher

April 12, 2013February 12, 2014Quote

Basil, the King of Herbs

This is what I call summer.Whenever I smell it I think about the sun and the sea of a mediterranean island. The word basil comes from the Greek βασιλεύς (basileus), meaning “king”, as it has come to be associated with the Feast of the Cross commemorating the finding of the True Cross by St Helena […]