Side dish: What's better than a pasta dish? A basic recipe from Italian cuisine. Cooking your pasta is not always an easy task: the cooking time, the addition of olive oil or butter, what volume of ...

Having lived in Italy for 18 years, I have picked up many, many tips and tricks for cooking pasta. When I first arrived, I had the assumption that many foreigners have, that all pasta is the same, ...

When I first lived alone in college, I melted a pot trying to steam an artichoke. My friends that know this won’t ever let me live it down. Despite being the granddaughter of an esteemed Southern cook ...

On a recent random Tuesday, my partner and I strolled past La Pergoletta, the old-school Italian American restaurant in Los Feliz that’s a staple of the neighborhood. Remarking that we’d lived in the ...

As a child growing up in Italy, Lidia Bastianich saw one particular cookbook in just about everyone's kitchen — The Talisman of Happiness. It was often given as a wedding present to couples starting ...