How to prepare an Italian antipasto platter
Create your own antipasto platter in a few easy steps. Learn how to choose ingredients like an Italian.
Emilia-Romagna
A Chestnut Festival in Tuscany
The autumn in Italy is time for the sagre, festivals of local produce as it comes into season. Chestnuts are a common product all over Tuscany. Read about a typical sagra.
Squacquerone: the best cheese you’ve never heard of
One of the typical products of Emilia-Romanga, scquacquerone is a mouthful to say but delicious to eat. It’s often coupled with gnocco fritto and piadina two of the region’s classic breads.
Tortelli di zucca: pumpkin pasta from Modena (recipe)
It’s pumpkin season again and the shops are full of all shapes and sizes of squash ready to be made into soups, risotti, gnocchi and so on. Italians love pumpkin, or zucca as they call it.
Tagliolini alla Parmigiana (Recipe)
A quick and easy pasta recipe showcasing some of the finest ingredients from the Italian city of Parma in Emilia-Romagna. Try it tonight.
Back to Bologna and real bolognaise (recipe)
La dotta, la rossa, la grassa. These are the nicknames given to the city of Bologna by Italians. La dotta (the educated) because it boasts one of the oldest and most prestigious universities in the world. La rossa (the red) because of its distinctive red-brick architecture. And la grassa (the fat)? Because of its …