Podcast Episode 11: Carbonara
In this episode I talk about carbonara, a dish which is famous for raising passions of Italians but also often misunderstood.
In this episode I talk about carbonara, a dish which is famous for raising passions of Italians but also often misunderstood.
Is it ice-cream? Is it gelato? No, it’s semifreddo, a deliciously simple dessert made from freezing whipped cream. It has quite a light consistency, caused by the air in the cream and all …
Probably one of the most famous Italian desserts of all time, many people don’t realize that the tiramisù is only about fifty years old. It’s now generally accepted that the dessert was invented in Treviso at the Osterie alle Becchiere in the late 1960s early 70s.
Although on a misty end-of-winter day like today you wouldn’t know it, La Madera is on the slopes of a mountain called Alpe Faggeta. A respectable height of 1,510 metres (4,954 feet) makes it taller than Ben Nevis, the highest peak in the United Kingdom. This appenine hill, however, would be dwarfed by the …