Umbria: Regional Recipes from the Heartland of Italy
Sample Recipes from Umbria: Regional Recipes from the Heartland of Italy
In Umbria today, bread is made both with and without salt. This is a recipe for salted bread dough. A small bowl filled with water set on...
Guglielma Corsi’s Roasted Peppers with Anchovi...
A few peppers remained from my summer crop and the mint was asserting itself through the bricks on the path some time after I noticed thi...
Clarisse Schiller’s Pasta with Asparagus Sauce
My friend Clarisse Schiller, who lives in the tiny medieval village of Lizori above Campello sul Clitunno, makes this pasta when the wild...
Piccioni, farm-raised young pigeons, or squabs, between three and four weeks old, are tender and tasty. Cooking them this way is typical ...
Donatella Platoni invited me to her country house near Perugia to eat this peppery chicken stew. When I arrived, she was talking to the b...
Viola Buitoni’s Stewed Salt Cod with Tomato, R...
This recipe is from Viola Buitoni, the daughter of cattleman Paolo Buitoni. It is a typical dish of the Lake Trasimeno region of her chil...