Recipes

Tagliolini con asparagi e guanciale is a spring pasta with asparagus and cured pork cheek. It’s a popular recipe across across central Italian regions, including Lazio, Umbria, Marche and Calabria. Guanciale is a product in this region and it comes up in many local recipes in these areas.…

Condiglione is a summer salad from Liguria, the thin coastal strip of north-west Italy that curves around the Gulf of Genoa. The core ingredients are tomatoes, red onion, Ligurian olives, capers, good olive oil, and oregano. There is no fixed recipes if you ask ten Ligurian cooks how they…

Trenette al pesto is a Ligurian pasta dish of long flat pasta noodles tossed with fresh basil pesto, potatoes, and green beans – all cooked together in one pot. It comes from Genoa, the regional capital of Liguria, and it has been on trattoria menus there for generations. More…

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…