The classic Italian bread-and-tomato salad gets a step-by-step guide to perfectionEvery bread-eating culture around the world has as many recipes for using up stale loaves as for bread itself: pain perdu, fattoush, roti curry … Panzanella is one of Ita…
Rachel Roddy’s recipe for stuffed red pepper rolls | A kitchen in Rome
Roasted peppers filled with aubergine, mozzarella and anchovies make a rich Italian substitute for British pub grubThere was a staircase off the main bar of the Gardener’s Arms pub. It had thick, red carpet with swirls and led to the flat where the lan…
Claudia Roden: ‘What do I want from life now? Having people around my table’
The food writer discusses her new book, Med, while Yotam Ottolenghi, José Pizarro and Sam Clark pick their favourite dishesClaudia Roden wasn’t sure that anyone would be interested in her writing another cookbook. “I kept telling my agent, ‘Nobody will…
Cocktail of the week: Cin Cin’s lively australiano – recipe | The good mixer
Like the classic americano invented by Gaspare Campari’s bar in Milan, but with limoncello and limeThis Antipodean twist on the classic americano makes a refreshing long drink for the last of the warm, late-summer afternoons. Continue reading…
Thomasina Miers’ recipe for aubergine parmigiana with spinach and ricotta | The simple fix
Layers of grilled aubergine, wilted spinach, ricotta and mozzarella, all drenched in a rich, savoury tomato sauceI adore parmigiana di melanzane, with its layers of sweetly acidic tomato sauce, grilled-until-collapsing aubergine and generous amounts of…
Rachel Roddy’s recipe for ricotta gnocchi with sage and lemon | A kitchen in Rome
There are thousands of names for pasta, but before all came those joyful, humble lumps of dough known as gnocchi. How do you like yours?“In the beginning was the gnocco.” When I first read that line by Corrado Barberis, president of Italy’s National In…
No ice-cream machine? No problem … | Kitchen aide
Do you need a machine to make decent ice-cream, or can it be done with just a plastic container, a fork and a freezer? Our kitchen gurus have the scoop• Got a culinary dilemma? Email feast@theguardian.comWhat’s the secret to ice-cream? Can you ever get…
Rachel Roddy’s recipe for strawberry tart with crema pasticcera | A kitchen in Rome
This strawberry custard tart is perhaps best known by Italians as one of the many tiny cakes to enjoy with coffee, but there’s nothing to stop you enjoying them on a larger scale …The bar in Linari must be 12m long, at least, and it’s shaped like an “L…