Italian Regional Recipes

This is a Piedmontese variant on the simple risotto cooked up and down Italy. Its variation comes in the addition of the red Barolo wine (risotto is usually cooked with white wine), which takes its name from the medieval town of Barolo, in the province of Cuneo. Barolo is known to Italian wine enthusiasts as [...]

Spaghetti aglio, olio e peperoncino is one of Italian cooking’s simplest and yet most satisfying recipes. It’s regional origins are lost in time, with various regions claiming it as their own – from Abruzzo through to Lazio or Tuscanny.  We’ve included this in the Sicilian section, because of a memorable variation we tasted in Palermo one [...]