“All’onda” can mean two different things to an Italian. To a surfer child of the Riviera, it evokes the swell of the sea. (Onda means “wave.”) To a northerner, all’onda speaks to the ideal texture of ...

Cooking risotto is like no other method of cooking rice. We are so accustomed to washing the rice and placing it in the rice cooker, turning it on and then just assuming that we will get perfect rice ...

Paniscia. The word sat at the top of the menu’s short list of first courses. It is a specialty risotto of the area, explained the waiter at Ristorante Monteariolo, in the northern Italian town of ...

Mistakes have consequences, and one such mistake resulted in this tasty dish Also In This Package Paneer, Kaali Dal and mayonnaise: When three is company Recipe for Kerala 'vattayappam' or steamed ...

Chef Alessandro Pavoni shares some of his native Italian risotto vocabulary. "As you toast the rice grains in oil before adding the wine and stock, that’s called the tostatura. When the rice has ...

A risotto brimming with shrimp, mussels, and squid would fit right into the Italian-American Feast of the Seven Fishes meal at Christmas Eve, or a fancy New Year's Eve dinner.

In 1972, about the time when authentic ethnic foods were catching on in this country, I studied with Marcella Hazan, the noted cookbook author and teacher. Although I`d spent some time traveling in ...