Christina Cooks: Back to the Cutting Board

How breaking family traditions can lead to creating new and unique ones.

Visiting a vegan spot in Naples, Italy.

Making a lemon cake.

Creating life and love with noodles.

Celebrating the love for friends, family and self through food and cooking.

Embracing the Italian tradition of living in the moment.

Favorite dishes from childhood.

A family hotel and restaurant in Scala, a sleepy town on the Amalfi Coast, offers good, simple food from an organic garden.

Cooking with a dermatologist in Rome to create a simple recipe for beauty; why the truest beauty is built from the inside out, beginning in the kitchen with the food we eat.

Embracing the Italian tradition of living in the moment.