https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Italy in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed It has just three ingredients, but a lot of bite: artisan pasta maker Silvana Lanzetta shares her recipe for the perfect carbonara sauce. https://www.thelocal.it/20210219/how-to-make-the-perfect-spaghetti-carbonara-recipe Fri, 19 Feb 2021 12:08:17 +0100 how-to-make-the-perfect-spaghetti-carbonara-recipe Chef Rubio, a regular face on Italian TV, is serving up a taste of home cooking in the unlikeliest of places: a Gaza jail. https://www.thelocal.it/20200124/italian-tv-chef-serves-up-cooking-lessons-at-gaza-prison Fri, 24 Jan 2020 10:24:57 +0100 italian-tv-chef-serves-up-cooking-lessons-at-gaza-prison You may know your panettone from your pandoro, but what about other seasonal treats? Read on for a tour of Italy's regional Christmas cakes. https://www.thelocal.it/20181206/italy-christmas-cakes-biscuits Thu, 06 Dec 2018 17:51:07 +0100 italy-christmas-cakes-biscuits The Ancient Romans first paired pasta with chickpeas, and people have been cooking it ever since. Silvana Lanzetta explains how to make this hearty, healthy classic. https://www.thelocal.it/20190412/how-to-make-pasta-with-chickpeas Fri, 12 Apr 2019 13:29:36 +0200 how-to-make-pasta-with-chickpeas It’s a very happy new year for one Australian living in Italy who beat fierce competition to win Italian TV cooking show Il Ristorante Degli Chef. https://www.thelocal.it/20190104/australian-wins-italys-il-ristorante-degli-chef-tv-cooking-contest Fri, 04 Jan 2019 14:57:11 +0100 australian-wins-italys-il-ristorante-degli-chef-tv-cooking-contest Wannabe chef Valter di Cecco, who moved from Sydney to Rome, tells The Local how he hopes to shake up Italy's food scene with his spicy, multicultural cuisine. https://www.thelocal.it/20181129/the-aussie-expat-in-the-finals-of-a-tv-cooking-competition Thu, 29 Nov 2018 11:31:54 +0100 the-aussie-expat-in-the-finals-of-a-tv-cooking-competition Italian chef Gualtiero Marchesi, widely considered the father of the country's nouvelle cuisine, died on Tuesday in his native city of Milan at the age of 87, local media said. https://www.thelocal.it/20171227/gualtiero-marchesi-father-of-italian-nouvelle-cuisine-dies Wed, 27 Dec 2017 09:35:59 +0100 gualtiero-marchesi-father-of-italian-nouvelle-cuisine-dies The man who helped bring Italian home cooking to Britain, Antonio Carluccio, has died at the age of 80. https://www.thelocal.it/20171108/antonio-carluccio-dead-at-80 Wed, 08 Nov 2017 18:48:05 +0100 antonio-carluccio-dead-at-80 One of the world's biggest gourmet food and wine fairs opens Thursday in Turin, with this year's edition taking its tasting sessions, workshops and street food parties to the streets for the first time. https://www.thelocal.it/20160922/massive-slow-food-festival-kicks-off-in-italy Thu, 22 Sep 2016 12:17:57 +0200 massive-slow-food-festival-kicks-off-in-italy Hard-working pizza chefs cooked up a record-breaking 5,836 pizzas in around 12 hours in the southern region of Puglia. https://www.thelocal.it/20160908/its-a-record-italian-chefs-make-pizzas-in-twelve-hours Thu, 08 Sep 2016 15:16:44 +0200 its-a-record-italian-chefs-make-pizzas-in-twelve-hours The ancient Roman kitchens of a Pompeii launderette have once again been kitted out with pots and pans as part of a new project that is trying to give visitors a sense of what day-to-day life in the city was like. https://www.thelocal.it/20160802/refurbished-pompeii-kitchens-show-how-ancient-romans-cooked Tue, 02 Aug 2016 14:04:31 +0200 refurbished-pompeii-kitchens-show-how-ancient-romans-cooked Living in Italy, cooking and eating Italian food… for a living. It sounds like a dream, but here are three women who made it happen. They tell The Local how they fell for Italy and its cuisine, and how they made a career out of it. https://www.thelocal.it/20160513/meet-the-expats-making-a-living-from-italian-food Fri, 13 May 2016 14:02:26 +0200 meet-the-expats-making-a-living-from-italian-food The concept of people throwing dinner parties for strangers has been popular in other countries for a few years now, but the trend is starting to take off in Italy. The Local explores. https://www.thelocal.it/20150408/come-dine-with-the-italians Wed, 08 Apr 2015 16:09:39 +0200 come-dine-with-the-italians Many foreigners coming to Italy cite food as one of the main attractions of the lifestyle, but not all Italian delicacies are suitable for the faint-hearted. https://www.thelocal.it/20140121/italian-delicacies-foreigners-find-hard-to-stomach Tue, 21 Jan 2014 17:23:00 +0100 italian-delicacies-foreigners-find-hard-to-stomach A survey shows economic problems are forcing Italians to be less fussy when it comes to food, so they're reducing waste and paying less attention to sell-by dates. https://www.thelocal.it/20140117/crisis-forces-italians-to-waste-less-food Fri, 17 Jan 2014 14:37:00 +0100 crisis-forces-italians-to-waste-less-food It might not be to everyone's taste but visitors to Rimini's annual festival of artisan ice-cream and baking this weekend will be in for a surprise as parmesan cheese-flavoured gelato takes centre-stage. https://www.thelocal.it/20140117/parmesan-ice-cream-is-surprise-festival-hit Fri, 17 Jan 2014 12:20:00 +0100 parmesan-ice-cream-is-surprise-festival-hit When Ashley and Jason Bartner left New York to set up an organic farm and cooking school in rural Le Marche, they didn't speak Italian or know how to grow their own food. Ashley explains how they embraced the change and settled into the local community. https://www.thelocal.it/20131206/italian-life-prioritizes-quality-over-quantity Fri, 06 Dec 2013 17:50:00 +0100 italian-life-prioritizes-quality-over-quantity