When you think of world-famous Italian cuisine, the first dishes to come to mind are usually pizza, pasta, and perhaps tiramisu, and with good reason. However, there is so much more to explore. It ...

Expressions of Italian heritage this time of year are usually not subtle. It’s the heaping helping of pasta and sauce, the zooma-zooma music of Louis Prima, the St. Joseph’s Day parade filling the ...

Caterina Scarano grew up in Mottola, Puglia, in southeastern Italy. She remembers her mother and her aunt getting together starting weeks before Christmas to make traditional sweets. “Every weekend, ...

Watching the talented bakers on the Great British Baking Show become frustrated trying to make biscotti, I was yelling at the TV: Water! Water! First, they were struggling with a sticky mess, then ...

From the classic double-baked biscotti to a mountain of bite-sized, honey-covered fried dough balls know as struffoli, Italian sweets have always been a Christmas staple for my Italian family and for ...

There’s nothing that satisfies a sweet tooth quite like a great cookie, whether it’s fresh-out-of-the-oven, gooey, chocolate chip or a chewy, colorful macaron. And while D.C. may have been known as ...

For those who love the old-fashioned Italian cookie, however, none of that matters. For them, traditional Italian cookies hit a sweet spot that goes beyond sugar, and they come with their own ...

Of all traditional European cookies, pfeffernüsse are the ones that most Americans probably had a chance to try. These German spiced cookies are popular across northern Europe and are a huge hit in ...