Bri DiMattina: Nostrana

<p>This week on Cooking the Books, Italian-Kiwi gardener and cook, Bri DiMattina tells us how she’s grown a food forest using permaculture principles in her garden in New Zealand.</p><br><p>Her book&nbsp;<a href="https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/Nostrana-by-Bri-DiMattina/9781775541981" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>Nostrana</em></a>, meaning ‘home grown’ is also an extraordinary story of Italian food heritage in New Zealand. It’s the legacy of her grandparents growing a new world for themselves and their fellow Italians during the economic migration in the early 1900s. But as Bri celebrates its publication in the UK - and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nigella.com/cookbook-corner/nostrana-by-bri-dimattina" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Nigella's pick in her Cookbook Corner</a>&nbsp;- she tells Gilly how her Instagram page @iatemygarden was never meant for the book shelves.</p><br><p>Check out <a href="https://gillysmith.substack.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Gilly's Substack</a> for much more on Bri's permaculture principles than you'll find in the book!</p><br /><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>