"Italy has very pronounced regional food," Italian chef and cookbook author Danilo Cortellini explains. "Every region has its own traditions and specialty — actually, every town has a way of ...

The chef, cookbook author, and host of the longest-running cooking show in American television has talked about “real Italian” regional cuisine for decades. She’s traveled to Italy many ...

Rolando Beramendi is the founder of renowned Manicaretti Italian Food Importers based in Oakland, California. He was one of the first to distribute fine specialty regional Italian food products to ...

Bernardone's ancestors made their home there. "We're rustic. Italian food is not complicated. It's simple, poor man's food. My family wasn't wealthy in Italy," Bernardone said. "When it comes ...

Dreaming of foreign travel? For me, it’s Italy, but since I can’t be there at the moment, I’m inviting Italy to my Easter table. In Italy, Easter is known as Pasqua and is the second most ...

Fifty years ago, French gastronomy reigned as the aspirational cuisine of choice—for restaurant diners and for home cooks. But we were in the dark ages when it came to regional Italian cooking.

It’s served on a Bub and Grandma’s baguette with stracciatella cheese. “As our regional Italian-food culture has become much more robust and more thoughtful, it’s that desire to be able to ...

Also, regional Italian cuisine is unfairly considered more prestigious. “If an American does not know about regional Italian food, that is a lot more embarrassing than if they do not know about ...