While the journalist, herself Italian, said hearing a food expert say that her national cuisine is “based ... as “a surreal ...

This is very much a northern Italian dish, given its use of butter, tomatoes, and risotto or polenta, and is created in the south purely for tourists. To be more specific, the dish is from ...

Many Italian writers have argued that a tomb from the fourth century B.C. bears a relief of pasta-making equipment, suggesting the dish was being enjoyed in pre-Roman Italy. Many food historians ...