Crostata ricotta e visciole (recipe)
Crostata ricotta e visciole is a classic cake from the Jewish ghetto in Rome. It’s like the best cheesecake you’ve ever had and remarkably easy to make. Here’s the recipe.
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Roman Jewish Cuisine
Roman Jewish Cuisine developed in the Roman ghetto, established in 1555. Find out more about this fascinating culinary sub-culture which can still be experienced today.
Five Venetian words we use in English
The Venetian language developed alongside standard Italian and was the dominant language in north-east Italy until Italian unification. And in fact, many words of Italian origin that entered the English language came directly from Venetian. Here are five of the best.
Dolci ebraici veneziani: Venetian jewish pastries
The 15th and 16th centuries saw a shameful period of what would now be called ‘ethnic cleansing’ in Europe. In 1492, all jews were expelled from Spain and soon other southern European states followed suit. Similar expulsions from England and France in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries had concentrated Europe’s jewish communities in Spain, Portugal, the …
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