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Italian recipes: homemade focaccia with potatoes and rosemary

25 April, 2020

This easy Italian recipe will have you making homemade focaccia with only a little patience required for rising time. Focaccia is a tradition that is most closely linked with Liguria, where you can generally find Italy’s best focaccia.The ingredients for…

Late night pastry in Rome

23 April, 2020

We’ve already written about the late night pastry excursions of Italians, when groups of people tread the early morning, silent streets of the city in search of their perfect Italian pastry. This video is of Laboratorio Lambiase bakery in Rome.…

Italian snacks: party food from Naples

18 April, 2020

This is a great Italian recipe for snack food at your next party that will definitely keep the punters happy. Obviously, we have to look to Southern Italy for the biggest dishes in Italian cooking, and this is one from…

Happy Hour in Italy: bars, buffets and cocktails

18 April, 2020

All you can eat buffet and Happy Hour in Italy is the best! You can try Italian cocktails or a nice prosecco, paying a bit more for the drink and enjoying the Italian snacks available for free at the bar.…

Italian bread recipes: focaccia or the Piadina Romagnola

13 April, 2020

Italian bread, the piada, is a kind of flat, unleavened bread, often used in antipasto dishes and sometimes even served with soup. The ‘piadina’ is one of my favourite Italian snacks which is basically a prosciutto crudo and mozzarella wrap.The…

Mediterranean dishes: stuffed aubergine recipe

12 April, 2020

This great Italian vegetable dish uses one of the staple ingredients from the mediterranean: aubergines. This recipe can be used for a family meal or as snack food at parties, to complement other dishes.Ingredients: small, round eggplants, cherry tomatoes, mozzarella,…

How to make focaccia: real Italian focaccia and crescenza from Genoa

10 April, 2020

While you might know that focaccia is an Italian bread, you may not know that it is particular to Liguria. In fact, focaccia is a Genovese dish and the last time I was in Genova, I ate so much it…

Italian snack recipes: parmesan pudding

6 April, 2020

We’ve looked at plenty of Italian snacks here on Dolce Vita, but this is the first I’ve heard of anything like this Italian cheese snack. If you’re going to throw an Italian snack party, you could try this “parmesan cheese…

Festival of Bread opens in Rome: celebrating bruschetta and the best Italian bread in Italy

6 April, 2020

The Italian Bread Festival in Rome starts today and is called the “festa del Pane Casereccio” locally, otherwise known as “bruschetta”. It will take place over the weekend from 6pm this evening in Piazza Tommaso Frasconi. It will finish with…

Italian snack recipes: mozzarella and olive balls

5 April, 2020

This Italian recipe is quick and easy to prepare; in no time you will have a delicious snack!Ingredients; Manitoba flour; I/2 cup warm water; yeast; 1 teaspoon sugar; stoned black and green olives; mozzarella cubes; oil; salt.Directions: mix the sugar…

Italian Christmas recipes: parmesan and prosciutto quiche snacks

24 March, 2020

A traditional Italian Christmas menu probably doesn’t include finger food and snacks, but if you’re entertaining for people on Christmas Eve and still want something Italian, this parmesan and parma ham (or prosciutto crudo) snack could do the trick.You’ll need…

Typical Italian dishes: focaccia from Recco in Liguria

23 March, 2020

When I went to Liguria a couple of years ago with a friend of mine, we stuffed ourselves stupid with focaccia. Focaccia is wonderful invention and can be enjoyed in so many ways: plain, with olives, fresh tomatoes, cut in…

The best street food and snacks in Milano and Florence

15 March, 2020

After our piece on Italians and their salami sandwiches, it seems snacks and street food is all the rage. The Repubblica newspaper has dedicated a double page spread to the new Italian fashion: the bread roll and all its forms.…