A group of female Italian cooks in their 70s, 80s, and 90s have become famous for the food—especially the pasta—that they make at home. They're known as the Pasta Grannies and are beloved all over the ...

Ever wonder why Italian food tastes so much better in Italy? It’s a combination of factors, aided in no small part by the ...

The first time Marcella Hazan cooked a full Italian meal, she did it in Forest Hills, Queens. Hazan moved to New York with Victor, her Italian-born American husband, in 1955. She knew no English, but ...

For more than two decades, Lidia Bastianich has been one of the culinary world’s most familiar faces. Yet she was largely unknown outside of New York City in 1993 when Julia Child asked if she might ...

How winter, geography and scarcity shaped Italy’s cuisine — and why comfort there has always meant survival ...

A descendant of a storied family, she was an author, TV host and cooking school director who showed that Italian cuisine was about more than tomatoes, pizza and pasta. By Clay Risen Before Lorenza de’ ...