snack Archives

Pizza rustica (Easter Cheese and Salumi Pie)

1 April 2013

Pasquetta, or ‘Little Easter’, known in English as Easter Monday, is a holiday in Italy and much of Europe. Folks traditionally […]

10 November 2012

The word pizza in Italian has a broader meaning than it does in English. Besides the savory disk we all know

28 October 2012

Torta di mele a homely version of an apple torte that could hardly be easier. And believe me, if a

19 September 2012

I’ve said before and I’ll say it again: is there anything more primally satisfying than fried pizza dough? If there

26 August 2012

It probably won’t come as a surprise that Neapolitan cooks have come up with a vast variety of ways to

24 June 2012

This one is so simple you might wonder why I am even posting about it. It’s what some of my

29 January 2012

I was so very pleased to read in the paper the other day that frying need not to be bad

22 October 2011

I’ve been convinced for a long time now that really good cooking basically comes down to two things: technique and

7 August 2011

The cooking of Puglia, the region that encompasses the ‘heel’ of the Italian peninsula on the Adriatic Sea, deserves to