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On Easter Day, you’ll likely find Colomba Easter Bread (Pane di Pasqua) at dinner tables all over Italy, from north to south. The bread is one of the first signs that spring has arrived. And despite most offices and retail shops closing up for the public holiday, bakeries remain open on Easter morning in Italy so customers can purchase this Italian...

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The Easter Holiday represents a time of year when, in our country, there is an atmosphere of celebration and renewal. Many people take advantage of this break to organize an out-of-town trip to discover some of Italy's most picturesque villages and territories. If you are looking for ideas on where to go at Easter, you will be faced with a wide cho...

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Experience the magic of Easter in Rome, known as Pasqua in Italian. From ancient ceremonies to colorful street celebrations, Easter in Rome is a unique experience you won't forget. Join us as we explore the beauty and excitement of this sacred season in one of the world's most enchanting cities. Celebrating Holy Week in RomeRoman Easter festivities...

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Like any other feast day in Italy, Easter Sunday lunch has its traditional recipes. Lots of dishes are common from North to South but we must not overlook that in each location they are prepared differently and take different names. Thus, tradition cuisine shares common traits but peculiarities emerge from region to region. So what are the specialt...

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The Easter meals offer release from the somber religious rituals of the previous Lenten period and solemn Holy Week events. In some southern Italian homes Easter celebrations––after morning Mass, of course––may begin with the head of the family, or the eldest member of the group (usually a nonna), blessing the table, foods and invited guests with a...

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Florence marks Easter Sunday morning with a centuries-old tradition called the Scoppio del Carro, or the Explosion of the Cart, which attracts large crowds every year. The ritual is believed to date back to the First Crusade in 1099 when, according to legend, the Florentine Pazzino de' Pazzi was the first man to scale the walls of Jerusalem. His br...

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If you’re traveling in Italy this week, you’ll have a front-row seat to many of the religious and cultural traditions associated with the Easter holiday. But another bonus of spending Easter in Italy is that it offers a unique opportunity to savor some of the specialty foods associated with the holiday.  From north to south, you’ll run into a bevy...

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As we are about to embark on the solemn celebration of the Easter Triduum, for many Italian Americans, Holy Thursday means a day spent in the kitchen lovingly recreating recipes handed down from generation to generation. This week’s guest, Stefano Arturi, knows a thing or two about recreating recipes. The author of the Italian Home Cooking Blog, St...

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Good Friday (venerdi santo) is a solemn, sacred day in Italy and when it comes to food the menu for a “pranzo di quaresima‘”, (a luncheon meal for this final Lenten observance) has a long and important tradition. In 1891 Pellegrino Artusi, an Italian merchant with an interest in the art of cooking, wrote La Scienza in Cucina e l’arte di mangiar ben...

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Noicattaro is one of the many characteristic villages of Apulia around the area of Bari which surely deserve a visit discovering places that tell about traditions made of history and religious folklore. n particular, Noicattaro is one of the most interesting places to visit especially during Easter Holy Week, characterised by the traditional proces...

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