Amalfi Coast, Italy July 2015
It was a fortunate situation for me that one of my clients invited me to cook for them on their trip to Positano, Italy. It's a running joke with them when they tell me they are going out of town to a such beautiful location I always kid, "you know, I am willing to travel". Well, this time someone took my joking offer seriously. Positano (which is one of a few small costal towns included in "the Amalfi Coast" along the lower west facing shin area of the Italy boot. There were several very small but well stocked markets to choose ingredients from along with equally small meat and seafood shops with literally, the catch of the day. To shop in Positano you have to go shopping with an open mind and with the idea of well, I'll see what's fresh and available and go with that rather than I'm making this recipe. The beauty of southern Italian food is the general recipe simplicity and freshness and quality of ingredients and that is exactly what I found. A culinary trip of a lifetime.