"No scales, no stress": Amber Guinness on cooking by instinct
In every Italian cookbook, two small letters sit beside the salt, the flour and the olive oil: q.b. They might just be the secret to a happier life.
Amber Guinness grew up in a crumbling farmhouse outside Siena, where she was bathed as a baby in a frozen water barrel and learned to cook from a mother who never used scales. Her parents spent years bringing the house back to life, feeding the builders with long, improvised lunches along the way. After her father died, Amber, then 24 and entirely self-taught, decided to fill the house with people again. She co-founded the Arniano Painting School…
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