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…
