{"id":182528,"date":"2025-06-14T01:26:20","date_gmt":"2025-06-14T01:26:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/182528\/"},"modified":"2025-06-14T01:26:20","modified_gmt":"2025-06-14T01:26:20","slug":"scran-season-8-talking-traditions-family-and-food-with-giovanna-eusebi-sabrina-damiani","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/182528\/","title":{"rendered":"Scran season 8: Talking traditions, family and food with Giovanna Eusebi &#038; Sabrina Damiani\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When we set out to record this episode of Scran we wanted to investigate the impact of Italian food and the businesses associated with it in Scotland and what we ended up making was an episode about &#8216;generations of strong women&#8217;.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>My first guest, Giovanna Eusebi, who owns \u2060Eusebi Deli\u2060 in <a href=\"https:\/\/foodanddrink.scotsman.com\/scran-podcast\/scran-season-8-glasgows-love-affair-with-tea\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Glasgow<\/a>, used those exact words to describe her family and business.<\/p>\n<p>From her fascination with capers to the touching memories she&#8217;s helped create around the table, Giovanna shares her passion for Italian food and culture and the story of how her business has been so successful.<\/p>\n<p>From Glasgow to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scotsman.com\/news\/scottish-news\/popular-edinburgh-bakery-hires-queue-warden-as-children-forced-onto-road-by-oblivious-customers-5173379\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Edinburgh<\/a> and the home and kitchen of Sabrina Damiani. I was treated to a beautiful afternoon tea prepared by Sabrina when we met.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/foodanddrink.scotsman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/roz-afternoon-tea.jpeg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"99169\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/roz-afternoon-tea-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-99169 lazyload\"  data- style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 768px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 768\/1024;\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/foodanddrink.scotsman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/roz-and-Giovanna.jpeg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"99168\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/roz-and-Giovanna-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"Scran\" class=\"wp-image-99168 lazyload\"  data- style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 768px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 768\/1024;\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I heard all about her journey from Sicily to Edinburgh via Oxford, and a career in academia, to now running her own private dining and catering business, \u2060Damiani Fine Dining\u2060.<\/p>\n<p>This episode is like a sonic hug so grab a glass of your favourite Italian tipple and settle in for a listen full of tradition, family, love and most importantly&#8230;food.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Listen to the episode in full<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Watch the episode<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Get in touch<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We\u2019d love to hear from you for the next season\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/foodanddrink.scotsman.com\/scran-podcast\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">episodes.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/foodanddrink.scotsman.com\/scran-podcast\/scran-season-8-michelin-stars-with-chefs-rodney-wages-and-stuart-ralston\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Scran season 8: Michelin Stars with chefs Rodney Wages and Stuart Ralston<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/foodanddrink.scotsman.com\/scran-podcast\/scran-season-8-sampling-arrans-food-and-drink-delights\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Scran season 8: Sampling Arran&#8217;s food and drink delights<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you have an opinion about anything we discuss, get in touch with your comments. Drop us a message on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/scotsmanfoodanddrink\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Scotsman Food and Drink Facebook page<\/a>, or contact me on Twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RosalindErskine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@RosalindErskine<\/a> or via email using rosalind.erskine@jpimedia.co.uk.<\/p>\n<p>Scran is available from all of your favourite podcast providers, including <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/gb\/podcast\/scran\/id1488904382\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Apple Podcasts<\/a> and<a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/78FBCK1yhoQV5HMMG6Z6WF\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Spotify<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you like what you hear, please hit subscribe to never miss an episode &#8211; and leave us a rating and review. It helps others discover the show and we really like to hear your feedback.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/foodanddrink.scotsman.com\/scran-podcast\/scran-season-8-the-challenge-with-scottish-scallops\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Scran season 8: The challenge with Scottish scallops<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/foodanddrink.scotsman.com\/scran-podcast\/scran-season-8-glasgows-love-affair-with-tea\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Scran season 8: Glasgow&#8217;s love affair with tea<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/foodanddrink.scotsman.com\/scran-podcast\/scran-season-8-discovering-food-and-drink-in-angus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Scran season 8 &#8211; Discovering food and drink in Angus<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/foodanddrink.scotsman.com\/scran-podcast\/scran-season-8-a-preview-of-the-campbeltown-malts-festival-with-glen-scotia-and-springbank\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Scran season 8: A preview of the Campbeltown Malts Festival with Glen Scotia and Springbank<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you want to know more about food and drink in Scotland, then why not <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scotsman.com\/newsletter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">subscribe to our newsletter<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When we set out to record this episode of Scran we wanted to investigate the impact of Italian&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":182529,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7826],"tags":[65384,748,1203,918,4884,14718,712,14,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-182528","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-glasgow","8":"tag-afternoon-tea","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-food","11":"tag-glasgow","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-italian","14":"tag-scotland","15":"tag-top-stories","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114679120510512756","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182528\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}