Christmas on Luca’s Italy
The festive season is almost upon us. Find out what Luca’s Italy will be sharing with you for Christmas, New Year, and beyond.
Christmas on Luca’s Italy Read More »
The festive season is almost upon us. Find out what Luca’s Italy will be sharing with you for Christmas, New Year, and beyond.
Christmas on Luca’s Italy Read More »
Fiendishly difficult to use or easy? The moka coffee pot is an icon of the Italian kitchen and easy to use: find out how.
How to make a perfect moka coffee Read More »
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.
A Chestnut Festival in Tuscany Read More »
Bigoli in salsa is the only really traditional Venetian pasta dish. Made with simple ingredients from the Venetian lagoon it’s packed with umami. Follow my instructions to Venetian heaven on a plate.
Bigoli in salsa: Venetian pasta (recipe) Read More »
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.
Tortelli di zucca: pumpkin pasta from Modena (recipe) Read More »
You’d think sparkling means sparkling but in Italy there’s a north/south divide as to what this means. Find out more about the divide and what causes it.
The Italian sparkling water divide Read More »