Giuseppe & I had a great time at the Real Food Festival, Earls Court, earlier last month. We met lots of other foodies, both producers and consumers and were delighted to introduce Veru to so many new people. For all the people we met from London, we can now announce our first London stockist - Bayley & Sage, Wimbledon Village, definitely worth a trip to stock up on semolina flour etc and all of the other wonderful goodies stocked by this fabulous food shop. And for discerning food shoppers in the Cotswolds, Veru can now be found at Le Petit Croissant in Chipping Campden.
Exhausted by our London adventure, we swept the children off to Sicily for some rest and relaxation - not to mention some of Nonna Rosanna's home cooking! I made some fresh pasta with semolina flour straight from the mill, which Giuseppe filled with ricotta (straight from the sheep, literally!) and delicious young broad beans. We took Sofia & Dante to see the shepherd, Giuseppe (another one), make 'primo sale' cheese followed by piping hot ricotta, it was quite magical seeing the ricotta rise to the top of the whey before being scooped into baskets ready for delivery. In fact, we delivered a basket to Nonna Pipina and Zia Pina to save the shepherd a trip up the steep cobbles of Via d'Azeglio. All the good food was accompanied by hot sunshine and plenty of village gossip, so all in all a perfect Sicilian holiday - next time we'll be hard at work picking the olives, can't wait!
