THIS IS THE WORLD’S BEST LASAGNA. A symbol of Italian cuisine, this layering of an intensely flavored meaty Bolognese sauce with a silky-rich bechamel sauce, and a restrained sprinkling of cheese has made it our best lasagna recipe for years. It bears very little resemblance…
From beautiful breakfasts to restaurant favorites, from sweets to spaghetti, and from new cooking techniques, here are the recipes our readers chose as their favorites this year. Chewing The Fat published 124 recipes in 2022. Some of them came in multiples: 7 recipes for cookies…
From Stanley Tucci’s “Searching for Italy” Season 2. In Chapter 3 of the current season, Stanley made his way to Sardegna. The first words he spoke about the place are shown here. Sardinia has many charms. Stanley explored its bitter honey, its Pecorino cheese, its…
Crispy, spicy, and deeply tomato-ey flavor from a whole new technique for cooking Spaghetti. Our lead visual may look like an ordinary bowl of spaghetti but it is most certainly not. This is spaghetti cooked in an entirely different way. In Italian, it’s called the…
Our first Stanley Tucci Recipe of the Season: Bucatini alla Calabrese Stanley Tucci’s “Searching for Italy” is back and it’s as irresistible as ever. The season opener found Stanley and his parents in their native Calabria. The toe on “the boot”, both Stanley’s maternal and…
Today we thought we’d take you along on a Wine Tour in Tuscany, bring Guanciale home and make the best Carbonara ever! Carbonara: “Hot pasta tossed with a creamy sauce of raw beaten eggs, accentuated with crisp bits of Guanciale and finished with a shower…
Polpettone in Crosta. An Italian take on Meatloaf takes the dish to another level! “Meatloaf” never looked more spectacular or tasted anything quite like Sofia’s Polpettone. Its crunchy shell of puff pastry revealed a richly seasoned pork and veal mixture greatly enhanced a handful of…
An eye-opening Bolognese from Tucci’s “Searching for Italy” We’ve always cooked Bolognese, arguably the most famous of all pasta sauces, for several hours. Its rich meaty flavor developed slowly. And before an ounce of beef was added to the sauce, the holy trinity of Onions,…
Stanley Tucci’s 6-part series for CNN is an Italophile’s dream. For one hour a week, its viewers are immersed in the food of a single region of Italy. For lovers of the Italian language, there’s a surprising amount of it spoken here. Subtitles are provided…
A transformative dish that takes me to a much happier place. I think it will do the same for you. These days dinner means more than mere sustenance. While we all ‘shelter in place’, it’s a mighty punctuation point to our day. Dinner is a…
PONANT EXPLORES THE GLOBE WITH A DECIDEDLY FRENCH ACCENT.
