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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 […]

15 April 2017

Savory pies and enriched breads figure prominently on the Easter dinner table. We’ve already featured a couple Neapolitan examples on

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

10 February 2017

Cantucci, also known as biscotti di Prato, are perhaps the best known of Italian cookies. Made from a simple dough of

27 January 2017

Italian cuisine is not generally known for potato gratin dishes. But here’s one from the little-known cuisine of Basilicata that

9 December 2016

I am taking some poetic license with today’s recipe. You see, stinco di maiale is actually the shank of the animal. It is

21 October 2016

No one understands simplicity quite like the Tuscans. As Leonardo da Vinci famously said, “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication”. This

4 March 2016

Delicious as it may be, the dish known in most of the world as Eggs Florentine —eggs sitting on a

23 November 2015

I first learned to make Strudel when I was living in Vienna, its birthplace. Strudel is also made in Italy,