Recipes

Sicily Pasta Recipes Pasta of the Mediterranean’s Largest Island Sicily has a range of interesting pasta recipes. What sets it apart is not the pasta itself but what goes on it. The island was ruled by Arab traders between the 9th and 11th centuries, and that has directly…

Friuli Pasta Recipes Pasta Dishes from Italy’s North-East Corner Pasta isn’t the first thing most people think of when they think of Friuli-Venezia Giulia. In a region where polenta has been the staple carbohydrate for centuries, pasta plays a much smaller role than in other parts of Italy.…

Trieste Food Guide Food from Friuli’s Adriatic Port City Trieste is unlike anywhere else in Italy. For centuries it was the main port of the Habsburg Empire – the gateway between Central Europe and the Mediterranean – and that history is written into everything the city eats. Walk…

Anchovies A Guide to Italy’s Most Versatile Fish Anchovies are one of the most used ingredients in Italian cooking. They are also one of the most misunderstood. Most people who say they dislike anchovies have eaten them as a topping on pizza. And somehow they form a view…