We used to grow our own peas here at Gangivecchio, back when there was someone to shell them. But times have changed. Now we have a small...

You can eat like a Sicilian with this fabulous spaghetti recipe that incorporates classic ingredients including anchovies, black olives and peppers. These are the staples found in Italy, which now can be found in your own kitchen. This dish also includes a specific type of capers, the ones packed in salt, to achieve the proper flavor the dish needs to succeed. If you decide to use a different type of caper or somehow wash off the salt from this particular type, you risk losing the appropriate flavor that makes the dish soar among your taste buds.

I had this in a restaurant in Selinunte, a small seaside town in western Sicily famous for its enormous Greek temples. I love to visit hi...

I love salmon. It is one of my favorite fish, and I think that the taste of salmon with wild fennel is perfect. Maria is my auntie, my ma...

This pasta is as beautiful to look at as it is to eat. I tried this recipe for the first time with our coauthor, Carolina. It was a happy...

If you find fresh fava beans at the market, they are great instead of or in addition to asparagus in this dish. We are not used to steami...

This spaghetti, named for the famous Sicilian opera Norma, is a classic. It was first made for the famous composer Vincenzo Bellini to re...

Fresh tomato sauce is the base of much of our cooking. In the summertime, when we harvest tomatoes from our garden, we hire a woman here ...

My mother’s pasta e fagiole is the best I’ve ever tasted, because she’s able to make the beans creamy. Her secrets are that she soaks the...

Lasagne was born in the north of Italy—Emilia, to be precise—but today it is a national dish. In the past, we always made the pasta by ha...