Food & Drink

The American opera expert Fred Plotkin once described Palermo as “a feast for the eye and a melody for the mind.” I’d say Palermo is more like a feast for the…

There’s a gorge between what we consider Italian-American food and the cucina italiana that we know today, but there’s a throughline that connects the sauces…

The recent announcement by US food manufacturer The Kraft Heinz Company that it’s planning to fill UK supermarket shelves with tinned spaghetti alla carbonara…

Where there are troves of Italians, there’s sure to be stellar Italian cuisine. A favorite city to those from all 20 regions stretching from Liguria to Sicily…

Whether shopping for ingredients to cook a meal while staying in Rome, or getting a taste of street food, wine and cheese, the Eternal City’s Trionfale Market…

Enjoying a gelato on an evening stroll is basically an Italian birthright. So when the city of Milan proposed a ban that could have potentially restricted…

Soft, hard and somewhere in between, the types of pecorino are innumerable and produced in nearly every region of Italy. They’re aged in caves and with…

Earlier in March, a Michelin-starred chef from northern Italy was sentenced to nearly three months in jail for serving risotto garnished with raw vongole (…

Kombucha — that acerbic, slightly bubbly drink — has, in recent years, transcended its obscure origins and niche market to become an increasingly fashionable…

Every year starting in September, Olivieri 1882 transforms into a sort of Santa’s workshop for the domed Christmas cake that has taken the world by storm.…