Ciao, I am Giulia Scarpaleggia, a Tuscan born and bred food writer, cookbook author, podcaster, and cooking class instructor. I am a proud home cook. I started this blog in 2009 to collect family recipes and stories. If you like seasonal food, the Tuscan countryside and a genuine approach to life, you’re in the right place!

The Juls’ Kitchen blog is an archive of free recipes: more than 700 delicious, Italian, Tuscan, and seasonal recipes shared over more than a decade. You can find all the info for cooking classes, along with foodie guides to our favourite areas of Tuscany, and beyond. You can subscribe to our newsletter, Letters from Tuscany, where most of our writing and recipes will live from now on. And then there is Cucina Povera, our sixth book that celebrates the best of the Italian resourceful, thrifty and inventive cooking tradition.

I work with my husband/photographer Tommaso Galli. We live in our family house in the Tuscan countryside with our daughter Livia and our two rescue dogs, Noa and Teo. Juls’ Kitchen is our family project.