About Me

Creative Designer by day, wholesome food blogger by night.
My name is Vanessa and I am the recipe creator, writer and stylist of this blog.

My family is originally from Sicily and the passion for cooking and eating nourishing food is in our blood. I grew up in the kitchen watching my mum cook delicious Italian meals and I officially started cooking at the age of 12 but at that time I was mostly baking Sunday cakes for the family.
I came to embrace the cooking process when I moved out of my family’s house and started my own adventure in Sydney. Here is where my long journey to a healthy lifestyle began.

Moving from Italy to Australia has caused me many health issues related to the gut.
I first became lactose intolerant and then I became intolerant to more than 50 different types of food (almonds, yeast, apples, chickpeas, macadamia, pine nuts, zucchini, maple syrup and etc.)
I sought help from doctors, specialists, naturopaths and spent lots of money and time without getting any better.

After different years and diets (included a plant based one), I am still here trying to figure out what works best for me and my body. Nowadays there are so many informations and different school of thoughts that you can easily feel overwhelmed.
I know that I am not the only one that has gut diseases and I like to think that by sharing my journey here, I can inspire or even help someone else out there.