Our culinary guide to the Italian Lakes is all about helping you eat well on Northern Italy’s lovely lakes region, a part of Italy that’s as delicious as it is enchanting. Whether you prefer to tuck into a comforting pasta at a simple trattoria or savour a cavalcade of dishes on a degustation menu at … Read more
This bigoli con salsa recipe hails from Venice and is made with wholewheat pasta and a sweet caramelised onion and anchovy sauce, and is sprinkled liberally with parsley. Distinguished by quintessential Venetian flavours, it’s a classic Venetian pasta dish that is deceptively simple and decidedly delicious. This bigoli con salsa recipe is our Venice edition … Read more
Puglian pizza making is a two stage process over two days, we learn when I get lessons in making homemade pizzas in the wood-fired oven attached to our trullo just outside Alberobello in Italy’s southern region of Puglia. Maria, the caretaker of our traditional trullo, has quickly become my cooking instructor and our friend. When she came … Read more
Our orecchiette con sugo al pomodoro recipe comes courtesy of Maria who taught us to make it in the rustic kitchen of the traditional trullo we settled into in Alberobello in Puglia in southern Italy. Maria gave us lessons in pasta making, teaching us how to make handmade orecchiette and this rich sugo al pomodoro … Read more
You know you’re in Italy when simple food combinations taste sublime and waiters welcome you like old friends. Sadly, those two experiences are often missed by many travellers who opt for fixed priced ‘tourist menus’ and restaurants on a town’s main square instead of a pizzeria and trattoria down a back alley. In Teulada, there … Read more