The other day, we walked past a field of cauliflower in the green belt of Rome called Casaletto. Not that it was clear they were …
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Rachel Roddy’s recipe for rice, chestnut, milk and bay soup | Soup
In her 1845 book Modern Cookery for Private Families, Eliza Acton has six recipes for chestnuts: a soup, a stuffing, a stew, with sausages, as …
Rachel Roddy’s recipe for bread, sage and lemon frittata | Food
The Sicilian chef Corrado Assenza studied agronomy at the University of Bologna before returning to his home town of Noto and taking over his aunt’s …
Rachel Roddy’s recipe for braised chicken with grapes, wine and vinegar | Chicken
Braised chicken with grapes, wine and vinegar Pizzutella is a white or black grape variety. The name comes from the form: cylindrical and ending in …
Rachel Roddy’s recipe for pasta with a raw tomato, mozzarella, herb and olive sauce | Pasta
The fan stopped working on one of the hottest days of the year, though that shouldn’t have come as a surprise. It has been trying …
Rachel Roddy’s recipe for hazelnut and walnut cake with fig compote and mascarpone | Cake
My sister keeps her cookbooks on a shelf above the kitchen door. The average weight for a hardback cookbook is apparently 0.91kg and, while there …
Rachel Roddy’s recipe for frying pan courgette parmigiana | Italian food and drink
I first ate this dish, cooked in this way, on a campsite in Puglia. The cook was the Scottish husband of a Sicilian surgeon, while …
Rachel Roddy’s recipe for panzerotti – deep-fried dough parcels filled with cheese | Pastry
The same Italian teacher who taught me to stuff vegetables in her brown kitchen introduced me to diminutive and augmentative suffixes using the word pancia, …
Rachel Roddy’s recipe for potato flatbreads with anchovy butter | Food
Name a dish that isn’t improved, or unaffected, by the addition of a small potato? For this question to make sense, a bit of context …
Spaghetti with a crunchy crust: Rachel Roddy’s recipe for spaghetti all’assassina | Pasta
The origin story – the specific episode or exact moment when someone decides to make something for the first time: an apple fell on my …
Rachel Roddy’s recipe for tomato and bay leaf sauce | Food
A group of young people, two of them wearing laurel wreaths to mark their graduation, arrived in the piazza at 6pm. They joined the mass …
Rachel Roddy’s recipe for pasta with pesto pantesco | Food
On a map, the Sicilian island of Pantelleria looks like a slightly flattened caper in the middle of the Mediterranean. It is geographically closer to …
Rachel Roddy’s recipe for lasagne, herby spring salad and buttery asparagus | Food
I dream of travelling at near light speed in a spaceship constructed of aluminium, titanium and semolina. My mission is to visit every galaxy in …
Rachel Roddy’s recipe for spring onion frittata and sweet-and-sour onions | Food
The glass door is propped open. It has a branch painted on it, also a barrel and grapes. It is midday, so the glass-fronted counter …