SHE’S got all the ingredients to be Australia’s answer to Nigella Lawson and now, a new cooking show on SBS to showcase her talent. “Raphael was at daycare and Miro was a really good baby, so I didn’t know what to do with myself. My mum said ‘just do a blog, everybody’s doing blogs.’ She said, if nothing else, just collect all the family recipes and put them in one place where we won’t lose them and really it (started) as simple as that.” That hugely popular blog turned into a best-selling cookbook, Silvia’s Cucina. Its success led to a second book, Made In Italy With Silvia Colloca, which is also the title of her new TV series. It will premiere on November 27 on SBS ONE, just in time for the book launch. The 10-part series is a visual feast, with Colloca taking a film crew home to meet her Italian family in Abruzzo, Le Marche and Molise earlier this year — even using her mother’s kitchen as their cooking HQ. [...] Via Mariano Pallottini