Entertaining Italian Style
A Romantic Italian Meal For Valentines Day
How are you going to woo the one you love on Valentine’s Day? Well, the male of the species usually finds that flowers and chocolates do the trick. And wha...
Aperitivi, Digestivi and Other Mealtime Drinks
Harry's Bar remains a legendary destination for those visiting the city of Venice. Since it opened at the beginning of the 1930s it has played host to the ri...
Buon Natale - Christmas Italian Style
No two Italians are likely to give you the same recipe for an outstanding Christmas culinary experience. Not only that, they’ll argue for hours about the r...
Celebrating Easter Italian Style
The importance of Pasqua (Easter) cannot be underestimated in Italy given its position in the Catholic calendar. However, it is not simply the festival’s r...
Entertaining Italian Style
Replicating a successful night of food drink and conversation in the Italian style is not necessarily about slavishly following the instructions in the recip...
How to Make Farinata: Italian Pancakes
In Britain, Shrove Tuesday has transcended its religious origins to become the day when even the worst cooks dig out an omelette pan and attempt to make panc...
Italian Food Retailers on the Internet
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 product...
Italian New Year Celebrations
La piazza, or town square, is the only place to be on New Year’s Eve in Italy, when the nation celebrates the Festa di San Silvestro. You’ll pass couples...
Music Italian Style
While the stainless steel cool of many modern Italian restaurants has left no place for a little background music to ease diners into the welcoming embrace o...
Restaurant Food Spellings: I Say Panino - You Say Panini
Lunchtime is High Noon for the service industry. Cafes, sushi joints and chain restaurants come out all guns blazing in the hope of collaring the nation’s...
Serving Dishes and Equipment
The Italian eating experience is all about everyone buzzing about the kitchen lending a hand, then helping themselves at the table. So forget about dusting o...
The Structure of an Italian meal
Any rudimentary study of the Italian approach to cooking makes one thing abundantly clear to the eager pupil: when it comes to the kitchen the inhabitants of...