Most Loved Italian Starters and Appetizers
If you’ve ever travelled in Italy, or even had the honor of being invited to Sunday lunch by your Italian neighbors, you will have noticed that a great deal of...
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Georgia Arkell is an Italian writer and translator, born in a small town on the Tuscan coast, where she lived for almost 20 years. She has a B.A. in History and French Studies from the Oxford Brookes University in Oxford, England. She graduated in 2019 with a First Class honours and later moved to Barcelona to work as a translator for multiple leading European brands in the Fashion and Jewelry industry. She is now working as a freelance translator and writer covering multiple verticals from literature and gastronomy to marketing.
The Most Popular Italian Meat-based Dishes
We all know that Italian cuisine is one of the largest culinary heritages in the world. While not surprising, many people are unaware that this cuisine goes well beyond pizza...
10 Tasty Italian Sausages & Cured Meats You Should Try
The unconditional love for sausages, salami and insaccati (cured meats) is undoubtedly strong and well rooted in Italian cuisine and the social culture revolving around the pleasure of food. The...
Italy’s 15 Most Famous Pasta Dishes
In the early 1940s, a renowned Italian author claimed that we should not thank Garibaldi for the unification of Italy, instead, we owe it to the invention of pasta. Another...
The Ritual of the Merenda: Discovering the Most Popular Italian Snacks
One of the first things you’ll learn as a child growing up in Italy is that you should never, ever, skip your mid-afternoon snack, the so-called merenda. In the daily routine of meals,...
Italian Bread: A Culinary Journey through Italy’s Regional Specialities
“Bread is the first food to be put on the table, it is the basis of human history. Bread is sharing, it embodies the history of peoples, their customs and...
10 Most Delicious Italian Soups
Whether a ritual, a supreme form of art and craft, or, to some, even a religion, Italian cuisine has evolved to go far beyond the human biological need to satisfy...
10 Most Delicious Italian Gelato Flavors
It would be hard to imagine a holiday along the swirling coast of Naples or through the ancient streets of Rome without the accompaniment of a deliciously creamy and colorful...
Top 20 Southern Italian Foods (With Pictures!)
There is no doubt that if you were to name the most internationally renowned Italian foods, many of them would probably come from the South: pizza, carbonara, and ice cream...
Top 20 Most Popular Northern Italian Foods
It is a common misconception that Italian cuisine is entirely about pizza, rice, and pasta. Indeed, saying Italian cuisine is all about carb-based dishes is a bit like reading the...
Top 15 Sicilian Foods To Die For
Sicily is considered one of the most beautiful regions in Italy; a colorful mosaic of tantalizing landscapes full of vivid historic legacies from the past, which attract millions and millions...
15 Popular Emilia-Romagna Foods You Should Try at Least Once
Nestled in the north of Italy, between the Alps and the Apennines, lies the beautiful region of Emilia-Romagna, home to some of Italy’s greatest gastronomic products. Besides the world-known Parmigiano...
15 Popular Tuscan Foods You Should Try at Least Once
The epitome of the Mediterranean diet, Tuscan cuisine, is renowned worldwide for its simple, fresh, and nutritious foods. This is a region in which history, art, and cuisine are beautifully...