Southern Lagoon, Venice, winter of 2023-2024

Someone’s head will roll. The new glass barrier that protects St. Mark’s Basilica from high water even without MOSE being activated was inadvertently left open. I would not want to be the person responsible for that mistake! #Venice

January gloom

✨The Venice Secret is out now as ebook £1.99, KU & paperback 📚 "A beautifully-crafted story of love, loyalty and self-discovery, drawing together past and present in an irresistible romantic mystery." Nicola Cornick amzn.to/3ES3oGy

January newsletter is out: Burning the old year, news from Venice, Christmas menu and Pasta e Fasiosi - a hearty soup of beans and pasta to see us through the deep winter months. 👇 sinufogarizzu.substack.com/p/pasta-e-fasi…

The Sauce That Survived Italy’s War on Pasta atlasobscura.com/articles/itali…

March newsletter is here 🐣 with a tiny Venetian bun in the oven 👶 saying goodbye to foggy Venice and a love letter to our local Easter bake (no, it's not colomba) 👇 sinufogarizzu.substack.com/p/happy-news-a…

Thank you for sharing @DreamOfVenice 👀🐣

Thank you Diane Benson for the lovely afternoon 🥰

We just got one of these glazed colombas from our local Rosa Salva shop in Mestre… not cheap! But how gorgeous! 📷: Rosa Salva 🔗: Where to buy the best colombas in Venice this year (Italian) veneziatoday.it/cibo/colombe-v…

Easter Sugar Rush starting in about 3 hours 👀 no amount of post lunch brisk walking is going to save me from this.

Happy Easter everyone. Here are some highlights from Giandomenico Tiepolo's Stations of the Cross in the church of San Polo in Venice. The onlookers are fashionable Venetians but the feeling and insights are more than superficial, I think

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Thank you @DreamOfVenice 💚💚 you are my Twitter eyes 👀 Happy St. Mark's Day 🌹🦁

💌Pillowy Venetian Buns, a foolproof recipe + a little story about my neighbourhood bread bakery. I've had a blast writing this, I hope you'll enjoy it! open.substack.com/pub/sinufogari…

Thank you for sharing @DreamOfVenice - bread makes everything better!

'tis the season for pasta e fasioi 🫘

It's so good!!