and with food playing such an important role in global holiday traditions, it’s no surprise that feasting is central to Italian Christmas. Natale is the perfect occasion to enjoy family recipes ...

Italian soups are great for a Christmas dinner as a first course. Here are some Italian soups you’ll enjoy. Plus you can make them in advance and keep in the freezer and remove them the day before.

The evening meal on Christmas Eve (La Vigilia) is traditionally based around fish, as a meat-free day before the decadence of the 25th. If you eat at an Italian home or restaurant on this date, you're ...

There seem to be many steps here. This conceals the fact that this Christmas dessert is ludicrously, dazzlingly easy to make. It doesn’t require cooking or technical brilliance: it is merely an ...

In most of these countries, the Three Kings Day is observed as a public holiday. La Befana is a folkloric character tied to the Epiphany, considered the Italian version of Santa Claus. The legend ...

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With all the liqueur, chocolate and mascarpone involved here, you’d think it would be unbearably rich: instead, it is curiously elegant. Using a serrated knife, cut the panettone roughly into ...

An adjunct professor in Sociology who has moved from place to place around the world, Anna Colluccia, the only one of her close-knit Italian family to leave town, is going home for Christmas.

If you’re of Italian descent or an Italophile, Christmas Eve means not waiting for Santa, but for the Feast of the Fishes. Though a popular tradition in the United States, it’s actually not an ...