Aubergines (eggplant) alla calabrese
Monday, December 1st, 2008It’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 Arabs [...]
