Retired dairy farmer Cicci, from the mountains of Ligura, shares her recipe for trofie using a mixture of chestnut and…
Olive oil features in most of our episodes, so I thought it deserves an episode of its own. I met…
Meet characterful Biggina from the island of Ischia, near Naples. Wild rabbits are plentiful on the island, and this sauce…
Filomena still cooks and works in her vegetable garden. Years ago, when she had too many beetroot, she found a…
Giovanna Bellia La Marca spent her childhood in Ragusa, Sicily before moving with her parents to New York. Here she…
What better gift than handmade tortellini? That’s what 97 year old Albertina gives her family for Christmas. Pasta Grannies met…
This pasta dish is simple to make, but you have to start making the ‘tuccu’ at least 4 hours before…
The last of the three ‘dolci’ celebrating Christmas. This is Maria, who shares her recipe for chestnut pastries called ‘tortelli…
Followers of Pasta Grannies often ask for dessert recipes and so as a special end of year celebration, we are…
91 year old Enrichetta lives in the mountains behind Genova in Liguria, north west Italy. And she has been busy…
96 year old Feni lives on the island of Procida near Naples. I think the steep flight of stairs to…
Maria Grazia moved from Milan to Naples to marry her husband – and his mother taught her this recipe which…