Typical pasta from the Veneto, the story of bigoli was born in the times of the Serenissima Republic of Venice, when a pasta maker from Padua, certain Abbondanza, in 1604 asked the Municipality for a...
Marco Gavio Apicio, a Roman cook, invented a recipe formerly called “Patinam apicianam sic facies”, or “Apicius cake”, which was similar to ravioli. According to historians, however, the raviolo could have been a synonym of...
In the Italian language strozzapreti literally means priest strangling. One of the legends created to explain the origin of the name refers to the tradition according to which the women of Romagna prepared this type...
Lasagna was already talked about in Roman times. The Greek term “laganon” and the Latin “laganum” indicated square or rectangular sheets, obtained from a dough of wheat flour, cooked in the oven or on the...
