At Marea, Michael White is revered for his use of seafood, as in this lush pasta sauce with pureed potato, salt cod and speck (a cured and smoked Italian bacon). He even adds cod tripe (from the ...

Say “salt cod” and some will think of the garlicky pureed brandade de morue of Provence, or perhaps the even punchier, more luscious Venetian version, baccala mantecato. For me, salt cod, or dried ...

Best kept secret on the Italian pescatarian table? Baccalà. Salt cod. Yes, you heard me right: this salt-preserved delicacy makes Italy swoon. Indeed Italians are only second to the Portuguese as the ...

One Christmas Eve when I was in elementary school, a heaping pile of buttered spaghetti sat on a platter on the buffet table in my grandmother’s warm, crowded kitchen. Since I was the kid who, to my ...

When Chef Carmelo LaMotta, owner of LaMotta’s Italian Restaurant in south Fort Myers, makes his Christmas Eve grocery list, there's no mistaking his Italian roots. In addition to the old standbys of ...