Baccala -- salt cod preserved from the North Atlantic since the 15th century -- is one of the most versatile ingredients in Italian cooking, from…
Pasta alla Norma -- fried eggplant, tomato, and salted ricotta -- is the defining dish of Catanian cuisine and a gateway to the rich Sicilian…
Ribollita is the Tuscan bread soup of cannellini beans, cavolo nero, and stale bread that improves with reboiling -- a defining example of cucina povera…
Cacio e pepe is three ingredients and a demanding technique -- an entry point to the Roman pasta canon that is as difficult to do…