Italian food

Plenty of posts about Italian food and drink for you to tuck into.

Lots to discover here.

How to Say Rabbit in Italian

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Rabbit in Italian is coniglio, just in case you wanted to know. If you do want to know, you are not alone, around 400 people every month want to know according to Google intelligence. How do you pronounce rabbit in Italian? Like this, more or less: co-ni-lio - that's "co", as in co-worker. "Ni", … [Read more...]

If You Like Italian food, You’ll Love the Just So Italian Shop

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Just So Italian an online shop which specialises in tracking down Italian food products and wines, can help you find interesting Italian food and wine in the UK. Now, as you might know, I live in Italy and have done so for many years but I am still coming across interesting Italian foods and … [Read more...]

Live in the UK? Then try Beviamo For Speciality Italian Food

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New for the New Year, a series of features on where to buy Italian food and drink online overseas.  To kick things off, here's Beviamo, a UK based company which specializes in exclusive, luxury Italian food and drink. Beviamo offers UK based Italian food fans an extensive range of Italian … [Read more...]

Try Pasta in Brodo, a Tasty, Easy to Cook, Italian Winter Dish

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Winter is more or less here in Italy and there's snow blanketing much of the north and centre today.  It's cold!  Time for some winter food, like pasta in brodo, which also happens to be a traditional Christmas dish in areas of north and central Italy, such as Emilia Romagna, Umbria and Le … [Read more...]

Discover the Christmas Cake of Abruzzo – Parrozzo

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Italy's cuisine never ceases to amaze me!  Christmas, as you will know and if you celebrate it, is coming.  This means that out come all the Christmas favorites, and in Italy just about every single one of Italy's twenty regions has its favorites. Take, for example, Abruzzo which has its very … [Read more...]

Spread Beer on Your Toast

This could be the news beer lovers around the world have been waiting for - spreadable beer!  Yes, beer you can spread on toast, or on whatever else you might like to spread beer on.  And it's been invented in Italy. Web magazine all about Italy, ItalyMag.co.uk has just run article about this … [Read more...]

Do You Find Potatoes Dull? If so, Try Polenta!

Valsugana Polenta is Easy to Cook!

Having grown up on a English diet of potatoes with more or less everything, I was very happy to discover that Italy was not a potatoes with everything nation, as I am not a huge fan of potatoes. Italy has no less than three potato alternatives: pasta, rice, and polenta.  It has to be said that … [Read more...]

It’s Bread of the Dead Time in Italy

The Bread of the Dead

Here comes Halloween!  As you might imagine, Italy's shops are full of pumpkin shaped tarts and more, such as the curious tombstone shaped Pane dei Morti or Bread of the Dead, as it can be translated. At this time of year bakeries all over Milan and Lombardy have a plentiful supply of these … [Read more...]

Beer: Italy’s Latest Luxury Product

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Italian luxury: Prada, Armani, Ferrari and beer. Yes, beer. Something innovative is happening, Italy is transforming humble beer into a luxury product. Some time soon, you will wander into some swanky restaurant and be offered a choice:  "Would madam prefer the wine or the beer list.", the waiter … [Read more...]

L’Arrosticino – The King of the Abruzzo Cuisine

Delicious Arrosticini from Abruzzo

While the Italian region of Abruzzo is well known for its culinary specialties: pecorino (sheep cheese), pasta alla chitarra, brodetto (fish stew), the undisputed King of all gastronomic delights is, without a shadow of doubt, l’arrosticino: small barbecued pieces of lamb on a wooden … [Read more...]

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