Cooking and baking can mean closing the gap between Venus and Mars.

Calabrian 'nduja goes a long way to dispelling myths about 'cool' Italian cuisine.

Olive harvesting combines hands-on hard work with an outdoor autumn treat.

Making something from "nothing" in cold Umbria can bring home the bacon.

Broccolo Romanesco is a quirky fall alternative to broccoli and cauliflower.

Dipping fresh bread in olive oil? Garlic bread? Not in Rome, you don't.

The further south you go, the more evident the importance of food, and sharing.

The Golden Apple wasn't originally Italian, nor was the amatriciana always red.

Rome's Open Baladin puts a happy face on the city's modest beer scene.

Why stare at them when your local butcher (once you have one) obliges?

Trippa alla Romana hails from "garbage"-days Testaccio and poor man's Rome.