“This is one of my favourite dishes… because it is elegant and carries the best Italian flavours.” -Luciana Sampogna
Light of Lucia cookbook author and Cucina Italiana Cooking School owner Luciana Sampogna shares her passion for traditional Italian cooking.
At The Essential Ingredient, we’re keen to help you celebrate Bastille Day in the most enjoyable and fitting way: with food.
Whether you’re looking for tins of snails ready to be baked in rich garlic butter, lobes of foie gras, the finest black and white truffles or imported French duck fat perfect for use in a tender confit, …
Food connects us to the planet we live on, and while innovations in technology help stretch the idea of what’s possible in the kitchen, it’s also vital that we not lose sight of that connection to the Earth.
Graupera, producers of traditional ceramic cookware in Spain for over 60 years, understands this connection. Graupera products are created using …
Roast pork is an Australian favourite, particularly when served with all the customary trimmings; roast vegetables, apple sauce, gravy and, of course, crackling. To most of us, a traditional Australian pork roast isn’t complete without perfectly formed, golden crackling, but getting a consistent result can often be a challenge.
Adrian Richardson, chef at La Luna and author of the book ‘Meat’, shows how to get perfect crackling results every time. This …
What are the advantages of copper cookware and why do many chefs prefer it?
Primarily, copper is an excellent conductor of heat. It responds very quickly to changes in temperature, giving cooks and chefs far greater control over the contents of the pan or pot. Unlike stainless steel, heat is very quickly transferred around copper.
Australia’s understanding of Middle Eastern food has been growing over the last few decades as local populations of Iranian, Afghani, Turkish, Sudanese and Egyptian expats, among all the other countries of the region, have grown.
So too has our desire for new tastes and techniques, particularly those involving as much rich history, and as many rich flavours, as those of the …
A nation’s cuisine can be one of its strongest defining attributes. It’s almost impossible to think about France without conjuring images of decadent pastries, or the United States without its towering burgers.
But what exactly is Australia’s national cuisine, and what does this cuisine (or lack thereof, depending on your view) say about us?
We recently asked our Twitter followers …
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