Italian Cuisine...
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A Deli Owner's Guide to Shopping Italian Style
For lovers of Italian food, traditional delicatessens are a veritable Aladdin’s cave of treasures, from cured meats, to cheeses, pastas, vinegars...
Da Piero: Interview With Award Winning Restaurateur
Gazing wistfully from under their umbrellas, what the rain soaked inhabitants of the Wirral peninsula wouldn’t give for a little Sicilian...
Have You Got the Stomach for a Lampredotto?
Millions of people flock to Florence every year to file past Michelangelo’s David and wonder at the treasures of the Uffizi and the Duomo,...
Insalate Di Frutta: Fruit Salads With a Difference
There can’t be many people of a certain age who don’t remember the tins of fruit salad - if you were unlucky, accompanied by evaporated milk -...
Italian Chefs' Campaign to Protect Ragu Bolognese: Case Study
A special ambassador will be bringing Bologna to the tables of thousands of restaurants in 70 countries across five continents, announced the...
Italian Cooking Terms
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...
Italian Food: the Perfect Way to Get Kids Cooking
Take a summer snapshot of an Italian town square and it’s a safe bet the children at the tables outside the neighbourhood trattoria who are...
Italian Slow Cooker Recipes
If you love authentic Italian food but don’t always have the time to stand and stir your carefully-prepared dishes, why not try one of these two recipes? They’re...
Lardo: Fat Isn't a Dirty Word in Italy
The ritual, which involves entombment in a block of marble, with only a blanket of pepper corns, cinnamon, clove, garlic, sage and rosemary for...
Quiz: How Well Do You Know Italian Food?
So, you think you know your Romana from your Sardo or the meaning of cacciatora? Put your reputation as a knowledgeable Italian food lover on the...
Quiz: How Well Do You Know Pizza and Pasta?
Pizza and pasta are responsible for making Italian cuisine arguably the best loved food in the world. But how tasty is your recipe and ingredient...
Regional Italian Foods
From the far north-eastern region of Alto Adige that reflects the influence of its near neighbour Germany to the southernmost tip of Sicily, close to the coast of the...
Smartphone Apps for Italian Food Lovers
Ever sat on the bus or train home and mentally planned next weekend’s wine or food purchases, or debated what to have for supper that evening?...
The Importance of Food in Italian Culture
The northern Italian city of Bologna is famous for
its university, for its endless porticos, a rather
fetching statue of Neptune and a pair of...
The Perfect Slow Cooker Ragu
You can make a really delicious ragu in your slow cooker. It may not be the quickest recipe in terms of preparation, but it really pays dividends when you sit down...
The Rise of l'Alta Cucina in Italian Cuisine
Home is where the heart is. At least that is the enduring image of where Italian cooking's affections lie. Just as mom's apple pie has a symbolic...
The Slow Food Movement: Case Study
Almost a quarter of a century after first crossing swords with Ronald McDonald, the name of Carlo Petrini has once again left the clown prince of fast food with a...
Top 10 Italian Cookbooks
The growth in the number of delicatessens and specialist food equipment outlets has been commensurate with the amount of shelf space that high-street and online...
Why Buy Italian Sauces in a Jar?
Packaging design is all about making eye contact between item and customer. In those few seconds lies the fate of the product – will it be picked up, perused and...
