Nana Archives

Pollo al forno con patate (Baked Chicken and Potatoes)

5 September 2011

The weather this Labor Day weekend hasn’t been too congenial for a cookout. It seems Mother Nature has been in […]

5 June 2011

For most of us, pizza means just one thing: a round disk of dough topped with tomato, mozzarella and other

6 March 2011

I wasn’t much on sweets even as a kid, but these little sugar-dusted ribbons of fried dough—variously known as chiacchiere,

28 January 2011

One of the wonders of Italian cuisine is its incredible variety, and much of that variety comes from the mix-and-match

25 September 2010

Purpetielli affogati, or Braised Baby Octopus is one of Naples’ favorite dishes. Octopus is a popular food all around the

21 August 2010

Being a lover of good food, I find it almost impossible to answer the question ‘what’s your favorite dish?’ But

6 July 2010

Cicoria, or chicory, also known in English as ‘curly endive’, is a staple of the central and southern Italian diet,

23 June 2010

Here’s a ‘master recipe’ for one of the most common techniques in Italian cookery for preparing vegetables, particularly green, leafy

19 June 2010

Although our favorite way of having green beans when we were kids, especially in the summer, was in umido, or