Continuing with our Italian Hannukah dinner, after the first course of riso coll'uvetta, proceed to the second course of chicken which is, of course, fried in olive oil. This dish is popular in Rome and all over Italy for Hannukah. The day before,...

It may come as a surprise to some, but Italy has a Jewish tradition going back not just centuries, but millennia. A Jewish community existed in Rome dating from during the Roman Republic, even before the Empire, in the first centuries BCE. That...

There are many types of lasagna dishes in Italian cookery, and in each is wonderful in its own way. But to my mind there are two "Ur-lasagne", each typifying the northern and southern poles of Italian cuisine: lasagne di carnevale from Campania—the...

One of the most famous sauces in all of Italian cookery, ragù alla bolognese—known in English as 'Bolognese sauce'—is one of those archetypical sauces simmering for hours and hours on the back of the stove that so many people associate with...

As we've mentioned before on this blog, Saturday is tripe day in Rome... sabato trippa, as the saying goes. The tripe served in our house is usually alla romana, but today I made something a bit different: buseca (which is Milanese dialect for tripe)....