Father, guru, evangelist? Ask any Italian chef, food writer, or home cook, who the most influential figure in Italian cuisine is, and one name comes up again and again: Pellegrino…

Recipe #5 in my new vegitalian series August is right in the middle of the Italian fig season and shops, markets, and the ubiquitous trees are heaving with the fruit. What better…

Rome’s many famous monuments, like the Colosseum, often overshadow interesting remains that in any other city would be the main attraction.

Recipe #4 in my new vegitalian series A friend of mine recently visited the town of Tropea in the southern-Italian region of Calabria. When he told me he was going, my…

This is not the traditional recipe for risi e bisi (Venetian rice and peas). This is the version that my mother cooked for me when I was a kid.