Italian Colors: Your Weekly Italian Newsletter from Rome

A weekly Italian newsletter about food, culture, and everyday life in Rome.

I’m an Italian writing about everyday life here. The food I cook (or eat), the places I walk, the traditions I grew up with.

Each letter is a small glimpse of real Italian life: sometimes a recipe, sometimes a word, sometimes a memory.

Join me in Rome

Consider this your written invitation.

Through Italian Colors, I share stories, rituals, and recipes that reveal a deeper Italy — the one you don’t find in guidebooks, but slowly learn. to recognize.

No itineraries. No clichés.
Just the Italy that is lived, cooked, and remembered.

Why Subscribe to Italian Colors?

You’re curious about real Italian life – not just the highlights.
For you, food is culture, not just recipes.
In your world, words like vino and cappotto carry stories beyond translation.
You enjoy letters that are sometimes long and reflective, sometimes brief like postcards.
You like knowing they are written and photographed by someone who actually lives here, in Rome.
And you appreciate occasional glimpses of the SIMPOSIO cookbooks that grew from the same streets and kitchens.

A Letter From Rome

Italian Colors is written from my life in Rome.

Not from a studio. Not from a travel itinerary. But from walks, markets, conversations, and kitchen tables.

Some weeks it’s about a recipe.

Some weeks it’s about a word that doesn’t translate.

Some weeks about something small, like waiting for wine to breathe.

Italy isn’t just food…

It’s the way we wait for a wine to decant.
The way we spend hours chatting (and gesticulating), in the middle of a piazza.
The way we always eat outside whenever we can.
The way we walk through the city for hours, in search of a bellissimo spot.
The way we always have fresh bread and vegetables.
The way we respect ingredients and the pace of time.
The way we enjoy life.

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