When you think of world-famous Italian cuisine, the first dishes to come to mind are usually pizza, pasta, and perhaps tiramisu, and with good reason. However, there is so much more to explore. It ...

Expressions of Italian heritage this time of year are usually not subtle. It’s the heaping helping of pasta and sauce, the zooma-zooma music of Louis Prima, the St. Joseph’s Day parade filling the ...

Italian families have certain traditions, and a lot of them circle around food. If you ever go to an Italian wedding on the East Coast, you would be amazed by the cookie table. Unless you have seen it ...

Italy is known for its delectable treats, but there's so much more to the country than gelato and tiramisu. These are Rick ...

Caterina Scarano grew up in Mottola, Puglia, in southeastern Italy. She remembers her mother and her aunt getting together starting weeks before Christmas to make traditional sweets. “Every weekend, ...

There is something about every kitchen that gets filled with magic as Christmas approaches the sort that starts with the smell of butter, sugar, and love blending in the air. For me, all such magic ...

This week we're taking inspiration from a local family's post-Thanksgiving tradition and celebrating the wonderfulness that is the Belgian Lukken Cookie. Two years ago, we hosted a Holiday Heritage ...

From the classic double-baked biscotti to a mountain of bite-sized, honey-covered fried dough balls know as struffoli, Italian sweets have always been a Christmas staple for my Italian family and for ...

Watching the talented bakers on the Great British Baking Show become frustrated trying to make biscotti, I was yelling at the TV: Water! Water! First, they were struggling with a sticky mess, then ...