Great summer pasta recipes for delicious and easy summer entertaining or family meals: the top 19 summer pastas from Italian food influencers @mangiawithmichele and @flavorofitaly.Listen to our chat about summer pastas here: No-cook summer pasta recipes 1. Caprese pasta This summer pasta recipe is a classic and quintessentially Italian with its red, green and white...
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The Best Summer Desserts of 2021
For the best summer desserts of 2021 look no further than Letitia Clark's new book, La Vita è Dolce (Life Is Sweet). Letitia wrote the book during the Covid lockdown as a sort of sweet pick-me-up recipe book project because as she says “sweet things make us feel happy”.I read the book front to cover...
Nine tips for eating and traveling vegan in Italy
Kate McElwee is a lifelong vegetarian and a decade-long vegan who’s been living and working in Rome for a number of years. Kate is American so she has great insight into what it means to be vegan in the United States and here in Italy. She shared these nine tips for enjoyable vegan eating in...
Rimessa Roscioli Wine & Food Experiences in Rome
Rimessa Roscioli is the most recent delicious addition to the four Roscioli food venues in Rome. In my interview with Alessandro Pepe, one of the Rimessa Roscioli owners, he says you can enjoy a Roscioli food venue any time of day: the café, the bakery, the salumeria and Rimessa Roscioli.Renowned Italian chef Massimo Bottura says...
The food of Calabria and Rosetta Costantino
If you’re looking for recipes that reflect the wonderful food of Calabria then no other book does it better than Rosetta Costantino‘s, My Calabria.Rosetta’s book was published in 2010 but it still is the bible for Calabrian cuisine. About Rosetta Rosetta is an only child and was raised in Verbicaro in Calabria until she was...
DOP Balsamic Vinegar: the Black Gold of Modena
If you’d like to experience DOP balsamic vinegar, known as the black gold of Modena, there’s no better way than to take a deep dive into one of the local family producers, or acetaia as they’re known in Italy: Acetaia Malagoli Daniele.Sofia Malagoli has taken the family acetaia to a whole new level and her...
Piedmont wines: three outstanding lesser known reds
Piedmont wines are world-renowned and this remarkable wine region produces more DOCG wines than any other Italian region. It also ranks sixth among the Italian regions in annual production volume. Piedmont produces all kinds of wines from sparkling whites, to rosés to red wines. Perhaps the best known wine in the region is Barolo. As...
Discover Sardinian food: Letitia Ann Clark's Bitter Honey cookbook
My chat with Letitia Ann Clark helped me discover Sardinian food more profoundly. Letitia is a gifted painter and illustrator, and author of the acclaimed Sardinia-inspired cookbook, Bitter Honey. About Letitia Letitia is originally from Devon and after her degree and masters in English literature she went on to train as a chef at the...
Cookbook Author Domenica Marchetti & Abruzzo Food - Episode 57
Today I chatted with Domenica Marchetti about Abruzzo food, her seven wonderful Italian food cookbooks, her online and in person classes, and the weeklong tours she runs in three different locations in Italy. About Domenica Domenica is an Italian American with 100% Italian blood lines that trace back to her family in the Abruzzo and...
Flavor of Italy Podcast chat with Tina Prestia - Episode 55
In this Flavor of Italy Podcast episode Tina Prestia from tinastable.com and I chatted about three classic Emilia Romagna regional recipes, classic versus tweaked recipes and a few ideas for your Easter table. A little bit about Tina Tina moved to Bologna some years back with her husband and daughter for what was going to...
Interview with Teri Turner, No Crumbs Left Creator - Episode 54
March 8 is International Women’s Day so who better to feature in March than No Crumbs Left creator Teri Turner? Teri has built her fantastic food, recipe and lifestyle blog from what started out as an Instagram profile into one of the top food blogs. She now has ⅔ of a million followers on Instagram...
Author Andrew Cotto & Italian Food, and his latest book: Cucina Romana - Podcast Episode 53
The driving force behind everything author Andrew Cotto writes is food, and almost exclusively Italian food. This week Andrew and I chat about his latest book, Cucina Romana, plus lots of other things Andrew has written. Andrew Cotto's Cucina series Cucina Tipica is the first book in the Cucina series about Jacoby Pines who travels...