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!
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The Italian sparkling water divide
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.
Zuppa fredda di melone (recipe)
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 …
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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Gelato malaga: recipe
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.
Carpaccio di zucchine: a vegan no-cook recipe
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. …