Easy peasy risi e bisi (recipe)
This is not the traditional recipe for risi e bisi (Venetian rice and peas). This is the version that my mother cooked for me when I was a kid.
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Food Box, Rome: Review
Food Box is a Roman street food stall located inside the Mercato di Testaccio in the south of the city. It serves specialities from Rome and other parts of Italy. All food is hand-made and cooked to order.
Polpette biscotte al finocchio: fennel meatballs (recipe)
Italian food may be simple, but often it’s not fast: but that’s one of its charms. Good ingredients, cooked well. It’s no surprise therefore that the Slow Food movement started in Italy. Traditionally, a lot of the more time-consuming dishes would have been cooked by housewives while their husbands were out at work, …
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Frittata di maccheroni: fried pasta cake (recipe)
The more I learn about southern Italian cuisine the bigger the differences I see between that and northern cuisine. And, to be honest, nothing surprises me. I was recently taught this recipe by a good friend of mine from Naples and it’s already become one of my go-to favourites. As the name suggests―maccheroni in Italian …
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Pick me up in Treviso
Located only 27km as the crow flies from Venice, Treviso has always lived in the shadow of the campanile of San Marco. For most of its life, that was a good thing. Its proximity to the capital of the great Venetian Republic meant that the government ringed it with a great defensive wall and …
Spring in Venice and a hoppy risotto: a quick guide to bruscà ndoli.
This article is about the Veneto. It’s been four months since I wrote my article about my return to my poor neglected Venice, and I’m happy to report that since then I’ve been a regular visitor. And it’s been really interesting to see the way in which the mood of the city changes with the …
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