FILEJA, THE BEST SOUTHERN ITALIAN PASTAS FOR HEAVY OR SPICY SAUCES! If you have never tried Fileja pasta and manage to buy it (or make it), do so. This is really is one…
La Struncatura is a pasta born within the civic habits and the eating habits of mill workers. It owes its name to the analogy between the raw material of its floury composition and…
Where were the first dairies that made the cheese? They were in Cistercian and Benedictine monasteries.The history of Parmigiano Reggiano dates back approximately 900 years. Today, as then, the ingredients were always the same:…
Known fondly as la regina rossa – the red queen – by Italians, Tropea onions are among the sweetest and most delicious onions in the world. We head to the beautiful Calabrian seaside…
HISTORY Cured meats were most likely produced in Calabria during the Greek colonization of the Ionian coasts.The most ancient written evidence of the diet of southern people is provided by Marco Terenzio Varrone,…
Traces of the pastPork slaughtering has been a celebratory ritual performed by several coastal families for centuries. As Gabriele Cavaliere describes in his book Q.B storie d’amore e di sapore della Costa D’Amalfi…