Toscana Archives

Fagioli e tonno (White Bean and Tuna Salad)

11 July 2020

Fagioli e tonno, or White Bean and Tuna Salad, is just about as quick and simple a dish as you […]

20 June 2020

One of my favorite pastimes in the kitchen is finding ways to make underappreciated and undervalued ingredients shine. I love

27 April 2019

The Italian cooking term fricassea is a bit of a false friend for English or French speakers. Like a fricassée,

3 November 2018

Yes, autumn is well and truly here. There’s a definitely chill in the air, the leaves are turning color, pumpkins

19 August 2017

Pollo al mattone, which I would translate roughly as “chicken under a brick”, is an ingenuous way of grilling chicken.

2 June 2017

Another of the many Italian dishes in the cucina povera tradition, sugo finto is “fake” because it is basically a meat

18 March 2017

In Italian Food, the 1954 book that introduced the English to real Italian cookery, Elizabeth David includes a recipe for petti

10 February 2017

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

20 January 2017

If you’ve read our Glossary of Italian Cooking Terms, you’ll know that the term ‘in zimino‘ refers to a whole