Calabria Archives

Trippa e patate alla calabrese

12 March 2022

As regular readers of this blog will know, I’m a big fan of those under-appreciated variety meats. Trippa, or tripe, […]

11 December 2021

It’s funny how some recipes or ingredients that have been around forever suddenly become trendy and therefore “new”. So it’s

25 January 2020

These days it’s become quite chic to claim one dish or another is an example of la cucina povera, or

16 March 2019

All over southern Italy, breadcrumbs were considered the “poor man’s cheese”. Those who couldn’t afford the luxury of the usual

16 February 2019

Southern Italian cookery, in particular the cooking of Puglia, Basilicata and Calabria, is rife with baked vegetable casseroles . They

20 February 2015

Here’s a sweet that’s so simple you could almost describe it as a non-recipe: Chocolate Covered Figs—dried figs stuffed with

15 June 2014

Swordfish is well liked here in the States and elsewhere for its mild taste and meaty texture. And the fish’s enormous size means that