Finding Italy

Hello guys! Some weeks ago I was analyzing a blog called  The Recipe Critic  to get inspired for my own blog. I found many interesting features that contribute to make it one of the most growing and popular food blogs.  First of all, I really liked the fact that every recipe, as you can see in the photo above, comes with an interface where you can check not only how much time you need to cook it but also the time required for all the preparations. One thing I found annoying is when you are in hurry and you think you have finally found a simple and yet tasty recipe, but then you realize you have to let something rest for an hour or you have to bake it for a long time. You get disappointed, mostly because you were ready to eat shortly after and your appetite was already sky-high. Thanks to this feature it’s now possible to avoid this unpleasant experience and choose your recipe on the basis of time,  even before reading the whole recipe itself. Another feature I liked ...

Hello everyone! Welcome to my blog! My name is Sara, I am the founder of “Finding Italy”, a food blog started as part of a food culture class I’m taking at a private Japanese University in Tokyo. You might be asking yourself why is it called “Finding Italy”, well it is very simple. The reason is that I am a huge fan of Italian cuisine and I wanted to find good restaurants or markets that sell Italian products of quality in Japan, mainly in Tokyo and Kanagawa.  Fun fact about me, I am Japanese but I lived my entire life in Italy. I grew up with Italian flavors, but now that I have moved to Japan, I kind of miss all of that. The purpose of this blog is to find the flavors of my childhood or better say of my entire life until now, in a totally different country that is Japan. By this I don’t mean that I am rejecting Japanese cuisine which is equally delicious and full of history, it’s just that I  would like to have the reassurance that comes from knowing there’s a place where I ...