As a visiting toddler I wandered my ancestral family’s fragrant lemon and olive groves in Sicily. As a young man I explored the world for the challenges of climbing expeditions, adventures of all kinds, and a love of travel.

Now I want to bring you the natural, simple, delicious sauces that evoke fond memories of people and places both familiar and exotic. Food, like music, connects people without words, it offers a window to other cultures.

Sauce captures the terrain, climate and tastes of the people, evoking adventure and an inspiration to travel.

Eating locally embraces culture. I found in my travels that meals initiate and deepen relationships, and through food I’ve discovered friendships, eased my passage through places once foreign, and deepened new loves. Local ingredients that are pressed, ground, mashed and stirred into sauces are signatures of the land and its people, portable for a far-off table, like a culinary postcard.