Pasta all’Amatriciana (recipe)
Pasta all’Amatriciana is one of a group of four outstanding Roman first courses. Learn about its origins and how to make it.
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Insalata primavera (recipe)
Insalata primavera, spring salad, with all the colours and flavours of the season combined in a mouthful. An excellent way to taste seasonal peas.
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.
Finocchio gratinato: oven roasted fennel with parmigiano (recipe)
One of the things that surprises most English-speaking tourists, when coming to Italy for the first time, is that in restaurants main dishes don’t come with vegetables. That’s not to say that Italians don’t eat vegetables with main dishes, but you have to order them separately. You find them on the menu in a …
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