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Recipe of the Week: Rack of lamb with herbs and artichokes


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Italian cooking: The Grogonzola cheese


This week Chef Matteo Carboni from the Academia Barilla tells everything about the Italian Gorgonzola cheese and offers his tips on how to serve it.

Buon appetito!

Recipe of the Week: How to prepapre the fresh pasta dough


And now that we have all the tools for the prepapration of the fresh pasta (for those who missed it do have a look at our video recipe from June 12th), here come the tips on how to prepare to dough:

Always from Academia Barilla and very inspiring!
Buon appetito!

Italian cooking: Traditional Italian Pasta Tools


And here come some video tips from Academia Barilla on all tools used in Italy for the preparation of the traditional Italian pasta.

Ready to try it at home? : )

Recipe of the Week: Eggplant and Prosciutto Rolls


For those of you who love cooking and enjoy the Italian cuisine, here is our weekly pick from Academia Barilla - Eggplant and Prosciutto Rolls

All the explanations are in English, so no reason not to try it!

Recipe of the Week: Risotto with Gorgonzola cheese


This week we present to you our video recipe pick from Academia Barilla - how to prepapre Risotto with Gorgonzola cheese

And this time all the explanations are in English, so no reason not to try it!
Buon appetito!

Recipe of the Week: How to prepare Pesto


For those of you who love cooking and enjoy the Italian cuisine, here is our weekly pick from La Cucina Italiana – How to prepare Pesto.

The explanations are in Italian, but it is presented in a very quick and simple way – enjoy and try it at home!

Recipe of the Week: Involtini alla siciliana


For those of you who love cooking and enjoy the Italian cuisine, here is our weekly pick from La Cucina Italiana - Involtini impanati alla siciliana.

You do have to speak Italian to understand all the explanations, even if only watching you can get a lot of culinary inspiration.
Buon appetito!

A Taste of Italy - Italian Wines


by Clyde Dennis
It may come as a big surprise to you that more wine is produced in Italy than any other country in the world, but this information will come as no surprise to Italians. Wine making in Italy has been raised to the level of an art form. One that is passed down from [...]

A Quick Guide to Speciality Coffees


by Fenton Wayne
Have you ever heard someone order a macchiato or ristretto in the coffee shop queue and wondered what it was? Don’t know a doppio from a mocha? Never fear, help is at hand with our quick guide to speciality coffees below.
All speciality coffees can be made from a standard espresso machine.
Espresso - The [...]