Piemonte Archives

Panna cotta

1 May 2015

It may come as a surprise that this famous, elegant dessert from the Piemonte region of Italy is so very easy […]

19 September 2014

Well, Autumn is well and truly upon us. We’re waking up to cool mornings and going to bed to downright chilly

19 January 2014

We usually think of boiled meat as a by-product of making broth, a humble if comforting dish for parsimonious souls.

8 September 2013

Zabaione, spelled Zabaglione by some Italians and all English speakers, is a classic sweet that you don’t encounter much any more on

11 March 2011

A reader who I’ll call “Nancy T.” wrote me recently to tell me about a bread soup dish called zuppa

14 November 2010

Bagna cauda or, more properly, bagna caôda, means ‘hot sauce’ in English. It refers to a typical Piedmontese dish for

11 July 2010

If I had to mention one dish in the Italian repertoire that epitomizes elegant summer eating, this might well be

24 January 2010

Homemade polenta is one of the most emblematic dishes of the northern Italian cuisines from the Veneto to Lombardia to

27 December 2009

Here’s a wonderful way to ‘recycle’ leftover brasato or other pot roast—as a filling for a half-moon shaped stuffed pasta