The best bolognese: real ragù (recipe)
Ragù, also known as Bolognese sauce, is one of the best-known but most misunderstood dishes in Italian cuisine. Here, I give my recipe, traditional, authentic, and delicious.
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Christmas in Venice: Pasta e fasioi
This Venetian winter warmer is considered a classic of the cuisine of the Veneto. It consists of a thick bean soup into which pasta is thrown to cook at the last minute.
Lasagne bianche ai noci: lasagne with white ragù and walnuts (recipe)
White ragù—Italian meat sauce without tomatoes—is one of my all time favourite dishes. I learnt it as a teenager from my Italian step-grandmother in her kitchen in Venice. She was noted for her ragù and people were forever asking her how she made it but, of course, she wouldn’t tell. But one summer morning while …
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Pasta e fagioli: pasta and bean soup (recipe)
We’ve been waking up to temperatures of about -4°C at La Madera this week, proving that the Mediterranean climate is an extreme one. So, while we wait for the return of the 38°C days we experienced last summer, it’s time for winter comfort food: and here’s some from my childhood, pasta e fagioli, or as they say …
Risi e bisi … a dish fit for a doge
Although I live in Tuscany, I was born far to the north in the city of Venice. I am very proud of this fact, and that for most of my life I have been greeted with admiring and impressed faces when I answer the question ‘Where in Italy are you from?’ According to tradition, the …