Anyone who knows me, even just a little, knows this: I CAN’T STAND PINK. I don’t know why this aversion to what is considered the color that best symbolizes femininity.  I only know that it’s been this way as long as I can remember.

I will dress my daughter in green without a doubt!

And yet: never say never.  What better reason to try to overcome your own “fixations” than for a good excellent cause?

And so, to take part and give my little contribution to the nastro rosa (pink ribbon) campaign, I decided to make an exception and let pink enter my kitchen.  I pushed myself to buy pink plates (rigorously used and thrown away ), ingredients and various decorations to attach to my culinary delicacies.

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“Your gift is coming through the door.”  “What gift… And what door?”  “Evidently the door to the place where you are now!”  These few seconds of surreal conversation between my mother and me happened during my lunch break at a small cafeteria where Antonello (my boyfriend) and I have been labeled by the girls that wait on us as the “beautiful couple”

At that moment I had my back to the door and was looking at Kelly, seated in front of me, with a certain perplexity due to the comical nature of my telephone conversation.  When I turned around I saw Antonello enter with none other than… A BRAND NEW PASTA BOARD JUST FOR ME!  Plotting with my parents, he literally became the bearer of their gift for the completion of my third decade (more…)