Creamy Tuscan Cannellini Bean Pasta with Tenderstem® broccoli Super-quick and easy to make, this vegan pasta dish is a great store cupboard supper, using mashed cannellini beans to create a creamy sauce to coat the delicious pasta. Topped with walnuts, chilli flakes and perfectly cooked Tenderstem® broccoli, this recipe is packed with the flavours of […]
As we find ourselves in lockdown around the globe, let us connect you to beautiful Italy today. Packed with armchair travel inspiration, we invite you to celebrate the culture, heritage, and above all, the people of Il Bel Paese with us through the pages of our latest issue. From Cinque Terre to Puglia via Lucca, Parma […]
Stuck indoors? You don’t need to miss out – there are lots of ways to enjoy Italia! Life looks a little different while we’re all adapting to what might be the “new normal”. Now, more than ever, we need to share our love of Italy. And now, more than ever, we want to be here […]
If you were due to travel to Italy over the next few weeks, we know how disappointed you must be. With travel restrictions coming into play all over the world, it’s definitely time to enjoy some time at home and dream of […]
We have teamed up with A Place in the Sun Live to offer you FREE tickets to their next show at Manchester Central on 6 – 8 March 2020 A Place in the Sun Live is the official exhibition of the Channel 4 TV show and the largest overseas property exhibition in Europe – the perfect place […]
Italy’s cheeses are famed throughout the world – and with good reason! Here are our top five… which is your favourite?! Photos by iStock/ Getty Images 1 Parmigiano-Reggiano, the undisputed king of Italian cheeses (above), comes from a designated area around Modena, Parma and Reggio Emilia, and is a grana, or hard cheese, with a nutty, […]
Fleur Kinson explores which parts of the Emilia-Romagna region would make the perfect base for your perfect home and a new life in Italy. Photos by Getty Images Emilia-Romagna is one of the wealthiest and most developed regions in Italy, boasting the third highest GDP per capita in the country. Half of the region is […]
The sophisticated region of Emilia-Romagna offers every geographical delight as well as some of the best food in Italy. Rural homes in its hills offer exceptional value for money too, says Fleur Kinson. Photos by Getty Images If you’ve never heard of Emilia-Romagna, that’s only because this happy, prosperous place feels no need to […]
Meascia, a type of bread cake, was a staple of cucina povera – an inexpensive way to make dessert using whatever was in the store cupboard. Mario Matassa shows us how to make it I’ve used apples from the nearby Valtellina in this version of meascia, but it can also be made with pears and you […]
Mario Matassa brings us this trout dish, known in Italian as filetti di trota con pesto di olive e capperi – make it tonight! Lake fish, like trout, naturally features strongly in the cuisine around the lakes. It was once a staple but overfishing was such that, for a time, other sources of fresh fish […]