Lynette Chaplin

I have always been interested in cooking and sitting down to an enjoyable meal with my family.

I left South Africa, my land of birth with my husband and 2 very young children in 1968. We lived in Switzerland for 2 years for health reasons and then moved down to Florence, Italy for 34 years. I am now a widow and have been living in Siracusa, Sicily for the last 8 years. Over all these years, I have created and collected a large selection of mostly simple and quick recipes, predominantly Italian, and a few years ago I had a book published called "My 600 Recipes".

It is a book for the kitchen and not the coffee table. It is based on the Mediterranean way of eating, with excellent pastry and cakes made with olive oil.