UNESCO has officially recognized Italian cuisine as an Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, making it the first national ...

When UNESCO inscribes “Italian cooking, between sustainability and biocultural diversity” on the Representative List of the ...

Pete Wells explores how the revered cookbook author changed the way Americans think about the cuisine. Twelve years after her death, nobody has overtaken Marcella Hazan as the source Americans consult ...

As a child growing up in Italy, Lidia Bastianich recalls seeing one particular cookbook in just about everyone’s kitchen. It ...

Aimee Levitt is a freelance writer in Chicago. Marcella Hazan was the Italian superhero in the Judith Jones cookbook universe that dominated food publishing from the 1960s through the early 2000s.

I never thought of myself as a “foodie.” Not that I didn’t enjoy food. Perhaps I enjoyed it too much, which is how I became significantly overweight and had a frozen pizza addiction. To combat my ...

UNESCO’s recognition highlights how migration, exchange, and diversity shaped Italian food, and why that legacy still matters today.

At the end of World War II, when Marcella Hazan was teaching anatomy in grade school in Italy, she was summoned to court and accused of murdering a German. Hazan—who would go on to become, according ...

As a child growing up in Italy, Lidia Bastianich recalls seeing one particular cookbook in just about everyone’s ...