Italian Regional Recipes

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 [...]

There are various dishes that have unsure origins, and are claimed by a number of Italian regions. Arancini, though, suffer no such ambiguities. They’re as Sicilian as you can get, though thanks to internal migration you can find them on sale as a perfect take-away food in bars and cafes in most Italian cities. These [...]