Italian Regional Recipes

It’s hard to imagine Southern Italian cooking without the aubergine, or melanzane as its known in Italian, and yet the eggplant’s origins are not indigenous – it first came to Italy in the early middle-ages, probably brought by the Arabs through North Africa. There’s some debate about the etymology. The most plausible is that the [...]

Calabria is famous for, amongst other things, its tomatoes, and this is a great, fresh Ingredients 8 large tomatoes 8 spoonfuls of pasta – you can use what you want, but Ditalini are particularly adapt Olive Oil chopped parsley mint leaves basil grated pecorino salt pepper how to do it Wash the tomatoes thoroughly, and [...]