Famous Recipes
Learn the stories and techniques behind Italy's most celebrated dishes, from their historical origins to authentic preparation methods.
A Guide to Making Lasagne
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 pr...
Bagna Cauda
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 s...
How to Make Insalata Tricolore
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 co...
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 li...
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...
Minestrone
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 wh...
Pesto Sauce
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...
Pizza Margherita
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 bee...
Pizza Quattro Stagione
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 comp...
Ragu Bolognese
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...
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, perus...
Zuppa Inglese
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 z...