TARALLI DOLCI AL LIMONE 🍋 Benvenuto Dicembre! It’s officially cookie baking season.💫 Recipe for these iced lemon rings will be in my forthcoming cookbook, ITALIAN COOKIES 🌟

Saturday was museum day 💫

In this week’s Buona Domenica, a Q & A w/the editors of The Talisman of Happiness, a new translation of Ada Boni’s compendium of Italian home cooking, first published in 1929. Plus recipes for Spaghetti con Cacio e Pepe, and Cabbage with Anchovy Sauce. buonadomenica.substack.com/p/on-the-tal...

Maltagliati 💫 Been awhile since I’ve made a batch of fresh pasta 🫶

THANKSGIVING RECIPE ROUNDUP in this week’s Buona Domenica: appetizers, sides & desserts with an Italian accent 🇮🇹 buonadomenica.substack.com/p/thanksgivi...

THANKSGIVING RECIPE ROUNDUP in this week’s Buona Domenica: appetizers, sides & desserts with an Italian accent 🇮🇹 buonadomenica.substack.com/p/thanksgivi...

Apples & Oranges Two simple, stellar cakes in this week’s Buona Domenica: @doriegreenspan.bsky.social’s apple custard cake + olive oil orange cake via Gustiamo. Plus a snippet of last night’s event with Dorie and Joe Yonan @boldforks.bsky.social buonadomenica.substack.com/p/apples-and...

@doriegreenspan.bsky.social’s apple custard cake in the autumn light 💫

FRIENDS: I’m delighted to share with you a first look at the COVER & ART from my forthcoming book ITALIAN COOKIES. Coming in April 2026! Click on the link below to read about how the cover came together 💫 buonadomenica.substack.com/p/italian-co...

This week’s Buona Domenica: morning walks in my town in Abruzzo, plus a recipe for a savory winter squash and sage tart buonadomenica.substack.com/p/morning-wa... Art by Daniela Bracco 💫

Cold pink oysters from the Po River delta; a seaside lunch on the Adriatic coast; fresh walnuts, and a recipe for roast peppers with piquant parsley sauce, a colorful fall appetizer from Piemonte. In this week’s newsletter. With art from Daniela Bracco 💫 buonadomenica.substack.com/p/fall-flavo...

October along the Adriatic coast (Le Marche)

Some Italian Lake District colors to welcome October 🇮🇹💫

Random question: can you command respect if you haven’t earned it? 🤔

“There she is, our heaven. She’s the only one we have.” Brilliant performance by #DavidByrne & Co. @theanthemdc.bsky.social

Spotted a pair of entwined walkingsticks on this morning’s walk

Friends, if you need a break from doomscrolling, you might enjoy my Q&A with Beatrice Ughi of Gustiamo, Bronx-based importer & purveyor of top 🔝 quality Italian foods. Plus Gustiamo’s recipe for La Spaghettata di Mezzanotte (midnight spaghetti) 🌜🍝 buonadomenica.substack.com/p/catching-u...

Here’s the link 🥳 September’s quiet riot and three recipes as we transition from summer into fall: buonadomenica.substack.com/p/septembers...

Some veg-forward recipes to match this delicious transitional season coming in tomorrow’s Buona Domenica newsletter: Eggplant and porcini polpette 🍆🍄‍🟫 Zucchini & potato polpettone 🥒🥔 Chocolate zucchini cake 🍫🥒

My weekly newsletter, Buona Domenica, is on summer break. But I’m still sending out weekly bonus recipes to my paid subscribers. This week’s is a late-summer entree: fresh cod sautéed with cherry tomatoes, olives & capers 👌 buonadomenica.substack.com/p/bonus-reci...

New York ❤️

My newsletter Buona Domenica is on summer break. But I’m still sending out a weekly bonus recipe to paid subscribers as a thank you 🫶 This week’s recipe is a free-form fig and frangipane tart, made with figs from my little tree 🌳 in the #GardenOfNeglect buonadomenica.substack.com/p/bonus-reci...

This morning’s harvest 💜💕and lots more on the tree. Planning on jam and a fresh fig tart. What else should I use them for?

My newsletter Buona Domenica is on summer break. But I’m still sending out a weekly bonus recipe to my paid subscribers. This week’s is a recipe for savory ‘corn chowder’ quiche, with smoky bacon, sweet red pepper , and cream💫 buonadomenica.substack.com/p/bonus-reci...

It’s the 🌟SUMMER ALL STARS🌟 edition of Buona Domenica ~ a roundup of my favorite recipes to make this month. Including: 🌟Eggplant and Rice Timballo 🌟Peperonata Bruschetta 🌟Brown Sugar Peach Crostata 🌟Red Wine & Fig No-Churn Gelato buonadomenica.substack.com/p/summer-all...

First fig of the season from my tree 💜

Somewhat non-traditional tabouli, with less parsley than typically called for but the right ratio for me.

APRICOTS | ALBICOCCHE 🧡 In jam, on toast, in cake. Recipes for Apricot-Anise Jam and Almond Cake with Jam and Whipped Mascarpone Cream in this week’s Buona Domenica newsletter. Illustrated by Daniela Bracco buonadomenica.substack.com/p/apricots-i...

A summer delight coming in tomorrow’s Buona Domenica ~ plush almond cake filled with tart apricot-anise jam and cold whipped mascarpone cream 🍑☁️🍰

Apricot and aniseed jam. I’ve been doing this a long time, but it’s still a good feeling when all the jars *ping* Recipe from my book Preserving Italy will be in Sunday’s newsletter 🧡

Dense, refreshingly cold, and starring the alluring combination of caramel, chocolate, cream, and crushed amaretti cookies, Bonèt is a classic Piemontese dessert. Recipe in this week’s Buona Domenica 💫 Illustrated beautifully by Daniela Bracco 🎨 buonadomenica.substack.com/p/chocolate-...

Some sumptuous summer pasta salads in this week’s Buona Domenica. Plus a marvelous illustration by Daniela Bracco 😎⛱️ buonadomenica.substack.com/p/eating-my-...

Mini escape to Maine 💫

In this week’s Buona Domenica: two ✌️ new recipes starring 🌟 cherries 🍒 and Amaretto: buonadomenica.substack.com/p/cherry-cri...

Greetings from the great State of Maine 💫

Apparently never 😔

Please get it together, Coco Gauff. I cannot take another loss today.

Buongiorno ☀️ I’m compiling a list of Italian bakeries—historic, old-school, modern—in the U.S., especially ones with great cookies. Which are your favorites? #Italianbakeries

I made one for the birds, too #acquadisangiovanni

Buongiorno ☀️

A little escapism in this week’s Buona Domenica: three homemade Italian liqueurs to stash in your freezer for sweltering summer days and nights: Crema di Fragola, Crema di Limoncello, and Sambuca. buonadomenica.substack.com/p/summer-chi...

Magnolias are blooming in Virginia

Sneak peek 👀 at one of the recipes coming in tomorrow’s Buona Domenica newsletter 🍓🍸

Improvisation in the kitchen and an Anglo-Italian-American mashup: rhubarb-apple-frangipane crostata: open.substack.com/pub/buonadom...

In this week’s Buona Domenica, a conversation with Kathy Gunst, my Food Writers in Italy partner, about our workshops. Plus a recipe for Torta di Nocciole, a hazelnut cake from the Langhe hills of Piemonte, where our most recent gathering took place: buonadomenica.substack.com/p/catching-u...

Tagliatelle alla Chitarra 🎸 Recipe in today’s bonus newsletter for paid subscribers: buonadomenica.substack.com/p/bonus-reci... #pasta

I often think of Mayor Lucano, ever since reading about him. Mayor of a dying southern Italian town of 500 people, who rescued it by giving migrants a home in the many empty homes and abandoned buildings, which the right wing Italian government treated as a crime. time.com/6104836/dome...

Thank you for making my day, Shaun 💫

Birthday Bolognese 💥 in this week’s Buona Domenica newsletter. buonadomenica.substack.com/p/a-birthday...

Omg this women’s final 🌟💥 @rolandgarros.com