Podcast Episode 1: Panettone
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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.
Panettone is coming
Panettone is the archetypal Italian Christmas cake, now on sale all over Italy. But are its origins what they seem?
Christmas in Venice: Cakes
With less than a week to go before Christmas we turn to the cakes that Venetians will be eating next Monday. The traditional Venetian Christmas cake is so famous that you can find it almost anywhere.
La Colomba Marietta: Italian Easter cake (recipe)
This recipe is from Tuscany. The colomba is to Italian Easter what the panettone is to Christmas. The name, which means dove, comes from its shape, representing the Holy Spirit, who in the New Testament of the Bible appears in the form of a dove. Like the panettone, the colomba is ubiquitous in the …
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