Food Culture

Ask an Italian how to finish a meal and the answer is rarely something fussy. The best Italian…

There's a moment on every menu I've worked where someone asks for the "authentic" version of a dish…

Italy is home to hundreds of pasta shapes — more than 300 by most counts — and each…

Italian food is everywhere now. It's not just dedicated Italian restaurants — pubs, cafés, and menus of every…

Italian cuisine is built on a small handful of ingredients — and that's exactly what makes it hard.…

I can usually tell within two minutes of reading a menu whether an Italian kitchen knows what it's…