During the Renaissance, the Italian diet consisted primarily of wine and bread, with a small portion of meat (preferably a type of foul, because birds lived closer to the heavens when they took flight ...

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’ ...

Pete Wells explores how the revered cookbook author changed the way Americans think about the cuisine. Twelve years after her death, nobody has overtaken Marcella Hazan as the source Americans consult ...

Aimee Levitt is a freelance writer in Chicago. Marcella Hazan was the Italian superhero in the Judith Jones cookbook universe that dominated food publishing from the 1960s through the early 2000s.

Italian cooking joins French gastronomy and Mexican cuisine on UNESCO’s list of global cultural gems, setting off celebration and snickering.

Aperitivo culture on the whole, if you will, has had quite a moment recently — both at restaurants and in bookstore aisles. One of the first cookbooks I can recall tapping into the bounty of Italian ...