Ingredients & Condiments
Traditional Balsamic Vinegar
Most people have never tasted the real thing.
Foods I've tried
Foods this traveler has tried.
Ingredients & Condiments
Most people have never tasted the real thing.
Prepared Foods
Created in Rome's Jewish ghetto, the fried artichokes herald spring.
Meats & Animal Products
Baloney's predecessor is sweet, delicately spiced, and bigger than your head.
Ingredients & Condiments
The fiery Calabrian meat spread also goes by "red Nutella" and "poor man's Viagra."
Prepared Foods
This old-school Italian dish comes in a rich and savory wrapper.
Sweets
To do Christmas right, Italians turn to heavenly chestnuts.
Sweets
This ricotta and marzipan pastry honors the Sicilian saint's most noteworthy body part.
Ingredients & Condiments
Once an insect-dyed health tonic, this liqueur now adds a scarlet tint to Italian pastries.
Prepared Foods
You can enjoy this Sicilian spleen sandwich “single” or “married.”
Prepared Foods
The secret to this sandwich is the cow’s fourth stomach.
Drinks
Artichokes form the backbone of this vegetal liqueur.
Drinks
If there is anything that should rest on its laurels, it’s probably this laurel-infused digestif.
Fruits & Vegetables
The washed and dried root of the licorice plant was once a popular natural “candy.”
Fruits & Vegetables
The lychee-looking fruit appears in everything from jam and liqueur to the Aeneid and Madrid's flag.
Sweets
Some Sicilians start their day with this decadent combination.
Meats & Animal Products
As fine as the marble it's cured in, this pig fat salumi is a Tuscan masterpiece.