I am often asked just how Italian I feel. I am inescapably Italian. My heritage, my Roman Catholic upbringing, everything I cook and so many childhood memories underlie my British education, my London upbringing and most of my working life.

After the last series for Channel 5, for which I travelled from north to south of mainland Italy, I could not ignore the islands.

Read about the islands at The Telegraph…

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