Diane Seed, author of the many best-selling cook books and Italian food consultant. The Gourmet Adventures feature Greece, Turkey, Morocco and India.
Diane Seed, author of the best-selling "The Top One Hundred Pasta Sauces" and many other books on Italian cooking, has lived in Rome for over 30 years. She has a cooking school in the beautiful Doria Pamphili palace in the centre of Rome. Her apartment is in the part of the palace used to house guests on the Grand Tour, and the small round window looks over Piazza Venezia, down to the Forum and t
12/12/2019
December 2019 Newsletter Last week I flew home to Rome after a week in the UK. BA kindly upgraded me to Business so I was offered a free hot meal instead of buying the usual Economy M & S sandwich. It was the Friday ev…
15/09/2019
Short,but hopefully sweet, due to computer problems! I have had a frustrating August as my scheduled UK cataract operation was postponed twice and all my summer plans were thrown in a heap. When I came home I was greeted by the usual August closed sh…
15/08/2019
Return to Istanbul ! I have long been under the spell of Istanbul, it was one of my favourite Gourmet Adventures, but in 2013 things were heating up politically, and I reluctantly decided it was time to take a prudent …
11/02/2019
Gourmet Adventures 2019 My website has become an embarrassment as I try rather incompetently to update it. Mark Collard, from Jigsaw designs, is working on a new look, which will be up soon. In the meantime here are detai…
27/01/2019
Rice in a cold climate In the north of Italy rice is the great culinary protagonist, and the great paddy fields follow the river Po through Piemonte, Lombardia and the Veneto. A dish of risotto stays hot for much longer …
20/01/2019
Travels 2019 – Sicily and Macedonia I hate the cold so I this January, after my family Christmas in Puglia, I have hibernated here in Ferentino, not even venturing out to local restaurants. When I used to teach English literature I l…
10/01/2019
6th January 2019 – Epiphany Happy New Year In Italy it is the custom to eat lentils on New Year’s Eve to bring prosperity in the coming year, probably because the pile of lentils looks like a heap of small coins. Lentils were a stapl…
19/12/2018
Christmas Newsletter Newsletter before Christmas I am writing to wish all of you a Happy Christmas and an exciting New Year full of travel and adventure. I have had a quiet time since my October Nardo course, busy plan…
22/04/2018
Salento – southern Puglia When I first started taking people to Puglia in the Nineties it was relatively unknown outside Italy. Local people would stop to stare at my motley group when we visited the food market in Monopoli…
25/03/2018
The first day of spring Today is the official beginning of spring, Palm Sunday and Greek Independence Day. It seems an auspicious moment to return to my blog and newsletter after a silence of nearly a year. A ruptured Ach…
30/04/2017
Giorgio Locatelli – Made in Sicily – A Cook book Several years ago, when I was the Italian food consultant for the UK store, Marks and Spencer, on my visits to London they would take me out to lunch in trending Italian restaurants to get m…
19/04/2017
Special offer for Greek island Due to last-minute cancellation 3 places available with 20% discount in the enchanting, unspoiled Sifnos. Greek Island Idyll Sifnos 17 to 24 June Reduced from 1750 to 1400 € to include accommo…