URGENT: SEND WINE Get wine shipped to your doorstep, send one to a friend, or host a virtual happy hour. Introducing an exclusive selection of rare wines curated by The Taste Edit and Ceri Smith (Food & Wine 2014 sommelier of the year), and imported by Terra Firma Wine Company to support our friends in... Continue Reading
Have you dreamed of visiting Sicily? One way we like to experience places from home is by making authentic recipes and drinking regional wines. If you’re dreaming of an escape to Sicily, find some eggplants, ricotta, and flour, and try your hand at making Baglioni Occhipinti‘s Sicilian Ricotta Filled Ravioli with Norma Sauce. This... Continue Reading
Have you been craving cozy comfort food lately? We certainly have, especially on cool rainy days. We used leftover mashed potatoes to make our Shepherd’s pie in one pan. Brown the meat, sautée the veggies, top it with fluffy mashed potatoes, and then send the pan straight into the oven until the top... Continue Reading
This recipe is a super easy pasta. We had a few links of sausage left in the fridge, as well as a few fresh Italian peppers, so we decided to make a quick weeknight pasta with it. You can use a spicy Italian sausage (what we had) or a sweet fennel sausage. Whatever you... Continue Reading
Do you have packs of chicken thighs in your fridge or freezer? Send us your best chicken thigh recipe! Is it a baked chicken, fried chicken, honey soy ginger, meatball or soup? The top recipe will be shared on The Taste Edit. Submissions close Saturday, April 4 at midnight PT. You may submit... Continue Reading
Since we’re spending so much time at home now, we’ve finally have time to work on things we’ve wanted to do for so long, like learn how to bake bread. Baking has become one of our preferred ways to relax and calm nerves – rather than fixating on the news. It’s also amazing... Continue Reading
You’ve probably heard of a classic Negroni or even a Sbagliato (mistaken Negroni) but have you tried a white Negroni? The Negroni Bianco, or White Negroni, is one of the most popular cocktails on the menu at Dante in New York City. Dante has an extensive Negroni menu. Most of them are batched, or made ahead... Continue Reading
If you loved our Bucatini Pasta Fish recipe, inspired by our time in Italy, you’ll love this shrimp pasta! It’s very similar, but uses shrimp instead of fish. Frozen shrimp can be found most everywhere in North America. Growing up in Florida, I took it for granted that we could always find fresh shrimp. Now that we live in California, we typically have a big bag in the freezer of individually quick frozen shrimp on hand, unless it’s prawn season - then we'll substitute huge, head-on live prawns!
We’ve been watching one of our favorite Italian chefs, Massimo Bottura and his family, who started an Instagram Live series called Kitchen Quarantine cooking from their home. It’s entertaining and educational. Bottura made his friend, Jean Francois Piege’s orange cake recipe for dessert this week. He topped it with vanilla whipped cream, blueberries, and strawberries. We decided to... Continue Reading
Looking for meatballs not made with red meat? Sicilians make them with fish like anchovies or swordfish. After we had delicious Sicilian Swordfish meatballs (polpette) in Etna, I decided to make my own at home. We’ve been told you can even make these with tinned fish. I wanted to make a bunch and freeze... Continue Reading
Ischia has an abundance of casual, beachside restaurants serving beautiful, simply cooked seafood and pasta dishes. As with the rest of Europe, many of the more formal restaurants are associated with hotels, however, Ischia’s finest restaurant, Dani Maison, is located in the family home of Chef Nino di Costanzo. Stepping through Dani Maison’s gate, it’s... Continue Reading
Barman Bryan Ranere wore many hats during his fifteen-year reign with us at Foreign Cinema, including film curator and filmmaker. He created this cocktail to feed our infatuation with the 1976 film that follows Led Zeppelin’s four musicians and infamous manager through the public trials and artistic triumphs of the group’s Madison Square Garden... Continue Reading
