By Ada Treves
The tenth edition of Salone del Gusto-Terra Madre, the five days event that transforms Turin in the capital of the food world will close today. With the Expo 2015 only six months away, in the year that …
By Rachel Silvera
Yom Kippur is one of the most important days in Jewish life: you cannot drink or eat anything, you cannot dress leather shoes and you have to pray. This is the Day of Atonement, of Teshuvah. And …
By Rossella Tercatin
Everyone knows about apples and honey. But when it comes to Rosh HaShanah dishes, there is much more to say. “May You bring upon us a sweet New Year (Shanah Tova Umetukah)”, the words one is supposed …
By Benedetta Guetta*
Stracotto, a simple pot roast in tomato sauce, is a traditional Jewish food from the Ghetto of Rome. Forget the meals-in-minutes approach to cooking: this beef roast will stay simmering in the pot for hours, just until …
By Ada Treves
It is well known that food has a great importance in Italian culture. At least as much as it has in Jewish culture. And the only Italian University where all courses and subjects have to do with …
By Benedetta Guetta*
Eating a dairy meal on Shavuot is an enduring tradition for most of the Jewish people in the world.
As we all know, there’s a number of reasons for this habit: some say it started when we …
By Benedetta Guetta*
The combination of pine nuts, raisins and vinegar probably dates back to the Middle Ages: most of the oldest Italian cookbooks feature a vast collection of sweet-and-sour recipes, in which the sourness of vinegar is balanced by …
By Adam Smulevich
Only hours after “The Great Beauty”, the Italian movie drama, which portrays the declining and yet sparkling life of a stunning Rome, won the Oscar for best foreign language film, the director, Paolo Sorrentino, born and raised …
By Benedetta Guetta*
One of the best kept secrets in the Jewish ghetto of Rome is called pizza ebraica or pizza di Beridde. It’s a heavy, warm, dense fruitcake type of cookie, that traditionally looks pretty burned and perhaps not …
By Rossella Tercatin
In Italy, food does not mean only nutrition, recipes and industry. It represents tradition, culture, the nature of the country and the society itself.
A feature that is definitely not foreign to Jewish tradition, which also cherishes …