Every autumn, Italy’s vineyards come alive with the sounds of the vendemmia, the traditional grape harvest. Tractors move through the early-morning mist, crates fill with freshly picked grapes, and families, neighbours and seasonal workers gather among the vines before the weather changes. In a country where wine is deeply woven into the culture, the harvest […]
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Radicchio is the great bitter leaf of the Veneto, where the long, elegant heads of Treviso and the round ones of Chioggia are as much a part of winter as the first fog. Italians love it for exactly the quality others find difficult: a clean, sharp bitterness that cuts through richness. Which is why it
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Some pasta shapes seem designed for a particular sauce, and farfalle rigate with a creamy mushroom sauce is one of them. The “rigate” means ridged, and those fine stripes across each little butterfly (farfalla, in Italian) give the sauce something to cling to. La Molisana cuts its pasta through bronze dies, which leaves the surface
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There’s a particular sound that means autumn has arrived in Italy, and it isn’t falling leaves. It’s the clatter of folding tables being set up in a village piazza, the hiss of a chestnut pan, and an accordion somewhere in the distance. From September through November, almost every town, however small, throws open its doors
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Mushrooms on mushrooms, and worth every bit of it. This is a deeply savoury, quietly luxurious pasta: golden pan-fried mushrooms for texture, a velvety Parmigiano cream for richness, and at the heart of it the Tesori del Matese Porcini Mushroom Cream with White Truffle, which brings the whole dish together. Porcini are the aristocrats of
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Some dishes don’t need reinventing, they need doing properly. Polpette al sugo, meatballs simmered gently in tomato sauce, is one of the great constants of Italian home cooking, the kind of thing every region, every family, has its own quiet version of. This one keeps things lean and simple: good veal, a little bread and
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There’s a dish every Italian knows by heart, not because their nonna taught them, but because it’s the one thing you can cook at 2am with your eyes half closed and your ears still ringing from the music. Spaghetti Aglio, Olio e Peperoncino is Italy’s great after-midnight ritual. It needs no fridge raid, no shopping
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If there is one dish that signals summer has truly arrived in Italy, it is this one. Insalata di riso appears on every Italian table from June to September — packed into containers for the beach, served at family lunches under the shade of a pergola, brought to picnics, prepared on Sunday and eaten happily
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Courgettes are at their absolute best right now — sweet, tender, and bursting with flavour, which makes this the perfect moment to put them centre stage. A lighter take on the classic aubergine parmigiana, this version swaps in courgettes for a dish that feels just as comforting but a touch more delicate. Layers of tender
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Some of the best Italian cooking asks nothing of you except good ingredients and a little patience. These stuffed aubergines are a case in point — hollowed out, filled with a savoury mixture of breadcrumbs, Parmigiano, capers, and anchovies, then cooked gently in a fragrant tomato and basil sauce, all in a single pan. No
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