The first story of Viviana, The Lake Como Cooking Journalist

It’s been a long time I haven’t written a blog; yes, I’m a journalist, or better, I’m The Lake Como Cooking Journalist and for my job, I always write.

But writing articles – VM-MAG – it’s not like writing a blog or stories. However this is the place where I’m supposed to write stories, so I will do it. And the first is about how I got here. I mean, not to a physical place, but to this digital location, or as I like to call it, this BLOG EXPERIENCE food location.

Well I’ve been loving food for all my life. When I was a child my mom use to prepare the genoa pesto using an old mixer with a light blu gummy top. Nowadays the scene in my kitchen is the same, but instead of me there is my daughter and at the end, she usually take a spoon and she finishes the rest of the pesto sauce in the big glass. YUMMY

If I were asked to tell you my favourite meal, it would be very very difficult to give an answer:

I like salty food, but I can’t live without black chocolate;

I adore raw seafood, but also the perfect fish soup prepared by my father;

carbs are considered evil from many people, but if I don’t eat pizza once a week, I completely go crazy;

So the answer is that I probably love food because food make me feel comfortable and because recipes connect me with my past, with my family, with my friends, with Italy and Lake Como where I live.