When we decided to start the blog, we didn’t even know where to start. They were the first steps into an unknown world, a little bit scary and surely competitive one. Nevertheless, we knew we had many things to say, to talk about, to share and express. We have been publishing one post every 2,87,…
Also this year autumn came. I always had mixed feeling regarding this season. When I used to go to school it always made me little bit melancholic to think about autumn cause it meant going back to school desk. Nevertheless I always appreciated and loved this season for the explosion of colors found in the…
We have now come to the last post of this compelling series that gave some more insight into chaga mushrooms (here the link to the post that explains what is chaga, where and how to find it and here the second post about how to store it). What we still have to discover is how…
In the previous post we saw what are chaga mushrooms’ benefits and how to find it. Once you have picked your chaga, you’ll have to go through three steps: cleaning, drying and storing.
This time we’ll talk about a really precious gift that Finnish nature gives us. Chaga mushroom (or Inonotus obliquus, Latinisation of the Russian term ‘чага’ ), is a fungus. It grows only in dead or dying trees, but it should be collected only from living trees because, in a dead tree, it loses quickly its…
If there was one book that really stimulated in me the curiosity of trying new recipes and experiment this was definitely the Cioccolato book from Slow Food. Sorry, not on sale anymore. It was released some 5 years ago as an attachment to an Italian journal, Il Corriere della Sera. It was the first volume…