Category: Italy

The Panelle is back!

Il Panelle è tornato a pranzo! I considered writing this whole blog in Italian but I’ll spare you (and myself) the trouble. Anyway, our Sicilian inspired sandwich is back, as of June 29. It’ll be around for as long as fennel is at its peak.

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Dry bread

Everywhere we went in Southern Italy, there was dry bread. We saw it in grocery stores and bakeries by the side of the road that

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2-ingredient salad

We went to Italy (Calabria and Sicily) on a food research trip. If you hadn’t been following that journey, you can scroll back to the posts tagged

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Autogrill

One of my fondest memories from my trip to Tuscany last summer was Autogrill. So when we spotted one out on the highway outside Palermo I

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Potato clouds

Nuvole di patate, purchased at a gas station in Calabria. I guess they tasted like what a cloud might taste like. Kind of like…nothing? From

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Fileja

We are learning that every region of Italy has its own shape of pasta. We kept seeing the word Fileja in Vibo Valentia. Uncle Enzo

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Uncle Enzo

This is Uncle Enzo, Enzo’s uncle, known to us on this trip as “Zio.” He’s from Calabria, used to run a restaurant in Massachusetts when

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