Recipes
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…
This dish is simple to make and absolutely delicious. It tastes just as good as any seafood pasta you’d eat on the Abruzzo coast. Prawns, calamari and scampi, a light tomato base, a splash of white wine, and a long pasta to carry it all. That’s it. What…
Tuscan wild boar ragu is so iconic that it would be easy to assume that this is the only way Italians cook wild boar. But to think that would be to miss out on some extraordinary regional variations like this recipe for Friulian wild boar in umido with…
Italy has over 500 olive varieties – more than any other country in the world. Most people never get past ‘green or black’. This regional Guide to Italian Olives covers the most important ones: where they grow, what they taste like, and what Italian cooks do with them.…