Caffè alla Salentina
In Italy there are so many different ways to drink coffee that you are always finding a new one. Caffè alla salentina is perfect for the summer. Try it!
In Italy there are so many different ways to drink coffee that you are always finding a new one. Caffè alla salentina is perfect for the summer. Try it!
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.
This time of year in Italy can be hot and I mean really hot. In Venice, temperatures and humidity soar making you want to leave the city and run away to the countryside. From a food point of view your body demands fresh, lean flavours to cool it to the core. Luckily, nature comes …
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 …
Frittata di maccheroni: fried pasta cake (recipe) Read More »
In Italy, even the flavours of gelato are custom to the whims of fashion. There are a couple of flavours, very common when I was a child in the 1980s, which you very rarely find nowadays, but which for me say still say Italian summer.
Until the 1960s, Carpaccio was a Venetian painter whose renaissance canvases are valued as a record of what the city looked like during his lifetime. Today, historians pore over his works extracting knowledge of the minutiae of sixteenth-century Venetian dress and architecture contained in them, including a detailed rendition of the old wooden Rialto bridge. …