Famous Recipes
Below are our 11 articles in the 'famous recipes' category:

There can’t be many Italian dishes that translate to the great outdoors quite like a bagna cauda. There is no need for a range of pans or a hot oven here simply a heavy bottom pan, even better an ...

Any Italian recipe that includes the word tricolore in the title is to be treated with respect denoting as it does the use of ingredients that make up the colours of the nation’s flag: red, green and ...

The passion that Italians bring to the kitchen is reflected in the language that they use to describe techniques and individual ingredients or recipes.
la lingua della cucina
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Such is the importance of food in the daily lives of Italians that whether at home or in one of the expat communities, a local source of high-quality products is always vital. As a result most major ...

A deeply satisfying combination of meat sauce and rich yellow fresh pasta. Sounds familiar? Well, yes, because like its famous cousin ragu, lasagne is the product of the fertile minds that inhabit ...

Given the rural roots of minestrone, the essence of the soup is whatever is available from the fields at a particular time of the year. This also explains why a Tuscan's idea of what the principal ...

It is little wonder that the everyday can sound so much more exciting when expressed in Italian. It is after all one of the romantic languages which means it derived from Latin rather than the pages ...

Ever so humble it may be in terms of its ingredients but the margherita pizza is arguably food fit for a king. Or rather in this instance a queen, having been invented to celebrate her majesty's ...

It would be ever so romantic to suggest that the quattro stagioni or four seasons, took its name from the collection of violin concertos by the Venetian composer Antonio Vivaldi. Unfortunately the ...

Each of the Italian regions may boast their very own signature dish but travel thousands of miles out from the peninsula in any direction and the locals will all tell you that in terms of the food of ...

Zabaglione and tiramisu may grab all the headlines when it comes to popular Italian desserts but neither possesses a name as intriguing as English soup, or zuppa inglese. Whether the name is the ...