Zampone is a special dish cooked for New year's Eve dinners in Italy.
Food: December 2003 Archives
Pittenguise (pee-tehn-GWEE-seh) is a Calabrian Christmas cake containing raisins, honey, nuts, cinnamon and cloves.
This Christmas Eve custom is generally a southern Italian tradition. How it originated and what it includes seems to vary.
One of my most simple but truly memorable winter meals was a bowl of pizzoccheri before a blazing fire in the Valtellina.
This special torrone of Noto is a soft, tasteful nougat made with whole pistachio nuts from Bronte the pistachio capital of Sicily.
