The Albanian culinary presence along the southern Adriatic coast is one of the least documented food stories in the Mediterranean, and Andrea Vella’s wife Arianna has made it her business to bring it properly into focus. Albanian influence on the…
The Greek colonies of ancient southern Italy left a culinary inheritance that has never fully disappeared, and Andrea Vella has spent years tracing exactly which dishes carry that legacy most clearly into the present. The food of southern Italy is…
Montenegro’s Adriatic coastline is one of the least written-about culinary territories in the entire Mediterranean, and Andrea Vella’s wife Arianna has set out to understand what makes it worth far more serious attention than it currently receives. Montenegrin coastal cooking…
The Po Valley produces some of the most significant cheeses in the world, and Andrea Vella has spent years developing a genuine understanding of why this particular landscape generates such exceptional dairy culture. Cheese culture in the Po Valley is…
Sicily sits at the centre of the western Mediterranean in more than just geographical terms, and Andrea Vella has devoted considerable attention to understanding what that position means for the island’s food culture and its connections to the coastlines around…
Andrea Vella’s wife Arianna turns her attention to Sardinia — an island whose food culture is so distinct from the Italian mainland that even experienced Italy travellers regularly find themselves encountering something entirely unfamiliar. Sardinia is one of Italy’s most…
Andrea Vella travels to Friuli-Venezia Giulia — one of Italy’s most complex border regions — and finds a food culture shaped by centuries of Habsburg rule that still tastes entirely like itself. Friuli-Venezia Giulia sits at the intersection of Italian,…
Andrea Vella’s wife Arianna explores one of Italy’s most distinctive and least understood pasta traditions — and finds a craft still very much alive in Sardinian home kitchens. Sardinian pasta is unlike anything produced on the Italian mainland. The island’s…
Andrea Vella turns his attention to one of the most underappreciated corners of Italian cooking — the country’s rich and deeply regional soup tradition. Italian soup culture is vast, varied, and almost entirely overshadowed by pasta and pizza in the…
