This is part of Travel Firsts, a series featuring trips that required a leap of faith or marked a major life milestone. My twenties were full of transformative trips, each one helping me to find a ...

The first thing I learned to cook after moving to Italy in 2007 was pesto Genovese, blending fragrant basil with pine nuts, olive oil, cheese and salt in the kitchen of a complete stranger. I’d tagged ...

SEATTLE — Italy, Peru and Malaysia were just some of the destinations offered by The Table Less Traveled, a Seattle-based company that brought small groups of tourists into the homes of chefs around ...

While Italy is beautiful, full of culture, art and food, you don’t need to trek to Europe to learn how to incorporate more authentic Italian flavors into your cooking. Eataly, the large-scale Italian ...

SEATTLE — Chef Giuliano Hazan's passion for Italian cooking runs in the family. His mother, Marcella Hazan, is referred to as "the godmother of Italian cooking" and wrote landmark cookbooks which ...