Foods thecasualnomad Wants to Try

This Sicilian sheep's milk cheese is colored with saffron and studded with black peppercorns.

Its deep-fried crust is part of a longstanding Neapolitan tradition.

The seductively delicious Easter cake once made an entire convent neglect its prayers.

Created in Rome's Jewish ghetto, the fried artichokes herald spring.

This ricotta and marzipan pastry honors the Sicilian saint's most noteworthy body part.

This layered pastry from Italy's Amalfi Coast may have origins in a 17th-century convent.

The lychee-looking fruit appears in everything from jam and liqueur to the Aeneid and Madrid's flag.