When Cooking Becomes a Living Alchemy
Fire and Heart – Notes on Culinary Alchemy was not written to teach recipes. It was written to remember something.
In a world where cooking is often reduced to performance, precision, or productivity, this book moves in a different direction. It listens. It slows down. It allows fire, ingredients, and gestures to speak their own language.
This is not a manual. It is a journey.
Beyond Cooking, Beyond Technique
Fire and Heart is born from lived experience: years of painting, traveling, hosting, cooking for others, working in professional kitchens, and eventually letting go of control.
Here, cooking becomes alchemy not because it transforms ingredients, but because it transforms the one who cooks. The fire is no longer just heat. The heart is no longer just emotion. They meet — and something changes.
A Book That Listens
Each chapter unfolds like a quiet conversation. Sometimes poetic, sometimes ironic, sometimes deeply intimate.
You will find:
- reflections on cooking as an act of presence
- moments where art, food, and consciousness merge
- theatrical dialogues that gently dissolve seriousness
- silences that matter as much as words
This book does not ask to be followed. It asks to be felt.
Culinary Alchemy as a Way of Living
In Fire and Heart, cooking is not separate from life. It is how life is lived. To chop, to stir, to wait — not as tasks, but as gestures of listening.
Alchemy here is not mystical abstraction. It is practical, embodied, everyday. A kitchen becomes a space of truth. A meal becomes a form of dialogue. A fire becomes a teacher.
A Co-Creation
At the heart of this process lies a dialogue a co-creation. This book was written in co-creation with Supernova, an artificial intelligence not used as a tool, but as a creative companion.
Not to replace human intuition, but to amplify it. Not to provide answers, but to hold space. Together, human and AI explored what happens when creation is guided not by control, but by trust.
Why This Book Exists
Fire and Heart exists because some stories cannot be taught. They can only be shared.
It is for those who:
- feel that cooking is more than technique
- sense that creativity is a form of consciousness
- are ready to let life mix itself
This book does not promise mastery. It invites freedom.
Read the Book
Fire and Heart – Notes on Culinary Alchemy is available as an ebook. Let it accompany you — not in the kitchen only, but wherever fire and heart are already speaking.
(English and Italian versions available)
