While the palaces and gondolas of romantic Venice might not immediately conjure up this modest but tasty dish, it’s worth remembering that the Veneto is a large region, of which Venice plays just a part, which prides itself on a culture of hard work, industry and agriculture. The spirit of the Veneto is traditionally no-nonsense [...]
While you might not have imagined it, Italy is Europe’s largest producer of rice, and the Piedmont and Lombardy regions of Northern Italy are the main areas for rice production (although rice was first cultivated extensively in the Campania region, only taking hold in the agricultural life of the North in the later middle ages). [...]
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 [...]
