Venice Archives - Luca's Italy

Classic Tiramisù

Your complete guide to making tiramisù the modern classic Italian dessert which has taken the world by storm.

In this episode, I talk about the Italian love affair with caffè and how it came into Italy and how it came to be the icon it is today.

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.

Èsser is one of the most important words in Venetian. Venetians use it to express their very identity and the Venetian language is littered with it.

The barene are an important feature of the Venetian lagoon and played an important part in the founding of Venice. But what actually are they?

Osmarin sounds such an exotic word and conjures up romantic images of Venetian merchants travelling to the east. But what does it really mean?