Pasta alla Norma, one of Sicily’s most iconic recipes, features fried eggplant simmered in tomato sauce and served with pasta,…
There is something deeply twisted about stuffing an animal’s body with its own legs, then cooking it. But in this…
Photo by Caput Mundi Cibus. It’s been a loooong summer, folks, and thanks to a string of unrelenting heat waves,…
Of all the pesto recipes in Food of the Italian Islands, pesto from Carloforte in Sardinia is the one that looks the most like pesto alla genovese, which makes sense because Carloforte on the Isola di San Pietro was founded by fishermen originally from the region of Liguria. The addition of tuna is a nod to the island’s main export.
You might think summer officially begins on the June 21 solstice, or when the mercury climbs above 30C. In Rome,…
The Stagno di Cabras is a shallow lagoon in western Sardinia where herons and flamingos wade through pools as they…
Get My new Guide