Italian Recipes

You know that feeling when a craving hits you with the force of a freight train? For me, it’s not […]

I have a deep, abiding love for mortadella that borders on the obsessive. It’s not just “fancy bologna.” It’s a

There’s a specific, glorious chaos to a proper Italian deli that I live for. The scent of cured meats, the

My Nonna’s garden was a tangled, glorious jungle of tomatoes, herbs, and most prolifically, zucchini. By mid-August, we’d be drowning

I’ll never forget the first time I made a proper, slow-simmered Bolognese for my then-boyfriend, now-husband. It was a cold

I have a thing for textures. I always have. For me, a great dish isn’t just about flavor—it’s about the

I’ll never forget the mud-splattered boots and that endless drizzle in Bologna, hunkered in my cousin Marco’s cramped trattoria kitchen

I’ll never forget the sweltering August I spent in my godmother’s sun-drenched Puglia kitchen, her hands—gnarled like olive branches—chopping sundried

I’ll never forget the frost-kissed morning in my nonna’s Tuscan kitchen, where the air hung heavy with ricotta’s milky tang

I still catch a whiff of that salty Jersey Shore breeze whenever I uncork a bottle for this dish—the one