Although many San Franciscans think the zesty fish stew known as cioppino was invented in their city, it can actually be traced back to Genoa.

The sautéed Broccolini and roasted squash and mushrooms are meant to be piled onto these creamy polenta sticks.

The beets give this risotto its brilliant hue have a surprisingly mellow flavor.

The secret to this dish is perfectly golden garlic. Pale garlic won’t crisp properly while cooling, whereas overcooked garlic will be bitter.

Loren uses a mortar and pestle to pound the ingredients for her pestolike sauce, but we found it much easier to blend them in a food processor.

Inspired by the 2001 German film Mostly Martha, Martha is a perfectionistic chef in Hamburg whose sister's death leaves her in charge of her young niece. At work, she is further shaken by the arrival of an irrepressibly...

This float was inspired by the Italian dessert affogato al caffé, which consists of ice cream that has been “drowned” in hot coffee.

My mom’s manicotti recipe (which comes from her Italian mother), feeds our immediate family of 40, but I’ve scaled it down to feed 6.