Italian Food • The Spaghetti Sisterhood

The food from your dreams…

AND OURS TOO, IF WE’RE BEING HONEST. ALL THE BEST RECIPES, TRADITIONAL AND SOMETIMES WITH A TWIST. But always extremely delicious, of course.

What you’ll discover

Traditional Italian food recipes from all around
You know it, we try out best to share as many regional recipes as possible, with tradition always in mind. From dishes like this Scarpariello pasta to Friselle, we have got your back and taste buds.

But also some less traditional
More modern Italian cooking. Less tradition, more experimenting. Sometimes inspired by tradition, but always with Italy in mind. This Sicilian pesto, for example, or even this Tiramisu.

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You may be wondering…

As much as I would love to claim pasta as an Italian invention, it was the Chinese who invented the first form of noodles.

Marco Polo brought it back over from one of his many travels and the rest, of course, it’s history.

There is such a thing as a free wine fountain indeed! In the Abruzzo region, more specifically in the small town of Caldari di Ortona, you will be able to find a red wine fountain open 24 hours a day.

Gently provided by the Dora Sarchese winery, the fountain it’s meant to provide a mean to quench the thirst of those taking the Cammino di San Tommaso pilgrimage.

Alfredo was indeed a real person: Alfredo di Lelio, an Italian restaurateur, created Fettuccine Alfredo in 1908.

After his wife had given birth to their first son that year, she did not have an appetite. To help encourage her to eat, he created a dish of noodles, cheese and butter. Alas, this is not what we call it in Italy – if anything, it does not have a name!

The short answer is ABSOLUTELY NOT. And I wouldn’t even ask as a joke to a random Italian person because people do tend to get quite offended by cream and carbonara in the same phrase.

If there was a pasta religion, for Italians, Carbonara would be the main deity, the one to rule them all.

Oh, to eat spaghetti and meatballs at the back of a restaurant is such a romantic picture, right? Not. At. All. And not only we’re talking about two dogs being served at the back of the said restaurant, spaghetti and meatballs is really not a thing in Italy.

While in the Disney department though, you will most definitely be able to eat trenette al pesto just like Luca, Alberto and Giulia eat in Luca.

DRUM ROLL – There are more than 600 shapes of pasta, and each single one of them is specifically designed to pair with a specific sauce too.

Variety is the spice of life, am I right?! From gnocchi sardi to rigatoni, to ciriole and even spaghetti, a sauce for all and even more!

WHAT YOU SHOULD CHECK OUT

how to make fresh pasta at home

HOMEMADE GNOCCHI SARDI – 2 INGREDIENTS MALLOREDDUS PASTA

Making fresh pasta like the gnocchi sardi will be the easiest thing you will ever attempt! A couple of ingredients, a fork and plenty of elbow grease!

– Sardinia

because we’re mad about this one

BIANCOMANGIARE – 10 MINUTES DELICIOUS SICILIAN DESSERT

Just one of those desserts you can’t stop making because you just can’t stop eating it! You will whip it up in no time and enjoy it as a beautiful summer treat.