Natural cooking does not necessarily mean vegetarian, vegan or gluten-free, but rather rediscovering ingredients that are easily processed, nutritious, without preservatives and seasonal. Solfrini Valentina, 23 years old, with an education in graphics and web design, after experiencing life in New York, now lives in Italy, on a farm by the Marche and Emilia Romagna region borders. It is there where, motivated by the desire to find an alternative therapies to pharmaceutical drugs for hormonal imbalances, she put herself to the test with a vegetable garden and recipes using biological raw materials with an authentic taste. She made it her job and over the last couple of years, along with her Canon 5D and the natural light of an all Italian sun, started a blog (hortuscuisine.com) in which she publishes successfully, her photos and experimental recipes. Her stylistic choices in terms of construction of the staging, combined with the ability to put a little of herself in each story and the wise mixing of the flavours and colours of the land, gained her the award of Saveur’s Best New Food Blog Editor’s Choice, the magazine directed by Adam Sachs that celebrates the culture and tradition of food from all around the world.