NPR's Juana Summers speaks with publisher Michael Szczerban about the new full English translation of the classic Italian cookbook, The Talisaman of Happiness by Ada Boni.

Americans treat food very differently than most, which could help explain why Giada De Laurentiis thinks we overlook this ...

Food Network is adding more than a dash of Italian flair to its next big primetime cooking competition, shooting the eight-episode series on-location in a Tuscan villa where 10 competitors live ...

Italian food is known and loved around the world for its fresh ingredients and palate-pleasing tastes, but the U.N.’s ...

Italian cooking traditions and practices have been officially recognised and listed as an "intangible cultural heritage". But what does that mean?

Back in the 1980s there was a rush of interest in Tuscan cooking that seemed to have more to do with style and fashion than what was actually about la cucina Toscana. It began when the fashionistas ...

PANICALE, Italy — Big onions, big garlic and getting flavor out of big seedless watermelon. I’m Laurie Ochoa, general manager of L.A. Times Food, filling in for vacationing columnist Ben Mims with ...

Tuscany gets plenty of adoration for its camera-ready landscapes, its free-flowing Chianti, and its trove of Renaissance art. But now we Americans need to thank it for a vegetable, too. In just the ...