Oct 11, 2019 2 min Rigatoni & Ceci al Curry This unusual and simple pasta dish is one of my favorites. There’s a bit of Moorish influence in the Italian kitchen, and the Abruzzo...
Jul 3, 2019 3 min Traditional Soup with a Side of Charm Dense, flavorful, and comforting sagnette e fagioli is the Abruzzo region’s take on the better-known pasta e fagioli (or pasta fazul in...
Apr 25, 2019 2 min Healthful Dishes, More Helpful Drugs After my night in Rome, I headed to Fossacesia. As I wrote in my last post, I’d arrived in Italy feeling pretty crummy. By the time I got...
Feb 28, 2019 2 min Matta per la Cipollata! I love homely contadino food. Always have. Show me a garlicky tomato sauce or thick bean soup or almost any mashup of humble ingredients...
Dec 25, 2018 2 min Christmas means strufoli Most of us have favorite foods from childhood —and particularly from childhood holidays — whose deliciousness probably is more about the...
Nov 27, 2018 2 min Holidays on Slice: La Peperonata In Lancianese cooking, one of the esteemed cuisines near me, peppers both hot and sweet figure heavily. This dish is made of the sweet...
Nov 21, 2018 3 min My cup wonneth over nobody. Coffee is, of course, a serious thing in Italy. And it’s all about quality versus quantity. Those espressos are one mouthful, but it’s a...
Nov 5, 2018 1 min For the some who like it hot The Abruzzese palate has a high tolerance for heat. At local restaurants, meals often are served with a dish of hot pepper on the side so...
Oct 29, 2018 3 min Spaghetti all’Arrabbiata A lotta Americans gotta gotta gotta have arrabbiata when they’re in Italy. I’m one of them. A good arrabbiata is very possibly my...
Sep 12, 2018 1 min My New Go-to: Avocado, Tomato, and Basil Salad This last August, the heat wave across central Italy was intense. One evening toward the end of my stay, when my fresh blow-out from the...
