Italian Regional Recipes

Necessity is the mother of all invention, as they say, and so it was that Napoleon Bonaparte’s swiss chef Dunand, cooked up the bizarre combination of chicken, eggs and crayfish that would take on the name Chicken Marengo. It all happened after the battle of Marengo (south of Turin), in 1800, when Napoleon routed the [...]

Here, in Northern Italy, traditional recipes don’t tend to be that spicy. To give you an example, when discussing with our paediatrician the appropriate age to introduce certain foods to our daughter, I asked her ‘When is it o.k to give her chilli peppers?’ She looked at me as if I was mad, and replied [...]