Discover Ligurian Food and Culture
Experience Recipes, Cooking Classes, and Food Tours with Me
Discover Ligurian Food and Culture
Experience Recipes, Cooking Classes, and Food Tours with Me
Ciao!
I’m Enrica Monzani
A Ligurian-born food researcher, cookbook author, cerified wine taster and passionate explorer of my region’s culinary traditions.
Here, I share traditional Ligurian recipes, stories from my food adventures in Liguria, and tips for experiencing the best of the region’s cuisine.
I also offer hands-on cooking classes in Genoa, small groups food tours, and unique culinary experiences across Liguria. These are designed to bring you closer to the fresh, herby, and sunny flavors that make this region so special.
If you’re looking to discover Liguria’s culinary treasures and its food heritage, I’d be pleased to guide you.
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Where to eat seafood in Genoa (a personal selection of restaurants)
Updated in 2026 with new recommendations, food guide, and experiences. Are you in Genoa and looking for a good place to taste fish from the Italian Riviera? Over the past months, I’ve been putting together this list of seafood restaurants in the city — the kind of...
Seeking gifts at the antiques market in Chiavari
Looking for a gift, especially for Christmas, isn’t it becoming a little bit stressful for you too? Bombarded by a commercial countdown that starts after Halloween, flooded with social and work commitments on the Christmas eve (which once was December 24, now if...
| Liguria food guide | Beigua Park.
Do you know the Beigua Park? It is one of the great protected natural parks of Liguria that stretches behind Arenzano and Varazze, west of Genoa. It is internationally recognized by UNESCO as a geo-park for its spectacular morphology. For its particular position...
A day in Val d’Aveto, the upper valley
Val D'Aveto, you know, fascinates me deeply. I’ve been visiting it for three summers. Short daily trips, nothing more, hanging around without a precise destination. But it was enough to fall in love with this corner of Liguria still so authentic, full of history, full...
A day in Val d’Aveto, from Rezzoaglio down.
Do you know Val d'Aveto? In 1945, during World War II, Ernest Hemingway, then a war journalist annexed to the American army, crossed it towards Piacenza and in the evening he wrote in his diary "Today I have crossed the most beautiful valley in the world". A nice...
Last Ligurian Recipes
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What Is Panera? Genoa’s Coffee Gelato Recipe (+ Video) & Where to Try It
Just spend a couple of days in Genoa to discover that here there is an ice cream (oops! a semifreddo) unique in the world impossible to resist: Panera! The name "Panera" comes from the contraction of the words “panna” (cream) and “nera” (black) because Panera is...
Genoese Focaccia: Recipe, Video & Where to Taste It in Genoa
Focaccia in Genoa is ubiquitous. It is in our life from sunrise to sunset. We soak it in the cappuccino for breakfast (yes, we do, and it’s incredibly good), we give it to our children as a snack at school, at lunch goes hand in hand with bread in the basket, it is...
Tortun di Castel Vittorio, an out of the ordinary Ligurian zucchini pie.
Castel Vittorio is an ancient medieval village that has dominated the Val Nervia from above since the 12th century. We are in the backcountry of Ventimiglia, on the border with France. The locals here are very proud not only of their past, full of conquests and...