Authentic Italian Recipes

Until around the Second World War, pizza as we know it today was a food made almost exclusively amongst the lower classes in Neapolitan...

In the past, it was quite common for pasta dough to be fried directly, rather than simply boiled or baked. This method has largely been...

Pellegrino Artusi, the “godfather of Italian food,” included this recipe for a sweet pasta in his compendium of Italian cooking. He notes...

Testaroli is one of the oldest (and strangest) pastas in Italy, perhaps going back to the ancient Roman empire. A simple batter is cooked...

Pizza Chiena, the original Italian ancestor of the American dish “pizzagaina” or “pizzagain,” is a classic savory Easter pie that...

This yummy cauliflower dish makes a great vegetable side, but it’s rich enough to serve as a main course! Hailing from Piedmont, Italy,...

This Italian sweet bread is reminiscent of panettone, but was made by poor workers who couldn't afford richer ingredients: like sugar!...

Penne alla Vodka is often attributed as an American dish, but it was actually invented by an Italian and first popularized in Italy....

The classic "Lasagna alla Bolognese" used to be quite different! This historical recipe for the original version was brought to our...

This unusual, historical recipe was brought to our attention by Italian food historian Luca Cesari. Check out his new book about the...

This intriguing potato dessert comes from the earliest Italian cookbook, written by Pellegrino Artusi. As he says himself, you would...

These historical cookies are actually a variation of Italian meat cookies, but adapted by the poorer classes who couldn't afford the...

These cookies originated as a way to preserve precious meat for a long period of time. The meat was cooked into these sweet biscotti...

This is the very first carbonara recipe ever documented. It was written down by an American food critic who learned it from two Italian...

Italian food, as we know it, is actually quite a recent phenomenon. It wasn't until the Columbian exchange, for instance, that Europe...