Naples and Campania Archives

Migliaccio di semolino (Semolina Cake)

10 February 2018

Migliaccio, a crustless Neapolitan Semolina Cake, is a traditional sweet dish for Carnevale, may be less well known than the […]

22 December 2017

Struffoli, small balls of dough fried and then covered in honey, is the quintessential Christmas sweet of Naples and its

9 September 2017

We’ve featured pasta and zucchini before, but this celebrated dish from the Sorrento peninsula is a bit more elaborate and intriguing. Spaghetti

12 August 2017

Chocolate Eggplant? It sounds like a culinary joke or some newfangled fusion dish. In reality, melanzane al cioccolato is a perfectly

1 July 2017

Zucchini and eggs were meant for each other. They are found together in a whole assortment of Italian dishes, perhaps

17 February 2017

Yes, Italians make meatloaf. They call it polpettone, or a ‘big meatball’, which is, in fact, what it is if you think

8 April 2016

I love second courses that pair meat and vegetable in a single dish. Not only is the combination invariably delicious,

18 March 2016

When they think of anchovies, most people, at least here in the US, think of salt-cured anchovy fillets packed in oil.

19 February 2016

Lent—la Quaresima in Italian—is the roughly six week period on the Catholic calendar between Ash Wednesday and Easter. Traditionally a period of