We are in 1895 and while Francesco and Antonio Bertazzoni were producing scales in their laboratory, in Chambery, a town in Savoy, the Dufour bakery had almost finished the ingred...

Eggplants have so many different names in Italian dialect, for example mulignana, milinciana, pumo or petronciana, as they are the reigning queen of all the vegetables in Medi...

Her Majesty Pavlova is the queen among cakes, named after Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova. Delicate and fragile meringue bottom, covered with fresh cream and mascarpone cheese, per...

Desserts similar to pudding were enjoyed as far back as Ancient Rome, known as “Creme di Apicio”, which were made with eggs, honey, milk and flour. But pudding in its most famous ...

The tagliatelle forms a tangled crunchy topping to this open tart which can be made with any fruit. ‘It’s a lovely dessert with whatever fruit is in season,’ says Nicola. Paolo sa...

The great Sicilian writer Elio Vittorini wrote that Scicli was possibly the most beautiful small town in the world. Other major Italian writers have celebrated it, including Piov...