The first time I had the Tuscan dish pappa al pomodoro, I was in my early 20s, considerably thinner and channeling my inner sophisticate at the famed restaurant Coco Lezzone in Florence, Italy. At the ...

Whenever I say the words pappa al pomodoro, I can’t help but sing the little Italian tune that melodically hums its praises — it’s too catchy not to. I learned it while I was living in Tuscany years ...

Don’t use sliced bread for this recipe. Most slices will be too thin and thus, will disintegrate. Buy a whole loaf and let the kids have fun tearing it into small pieces. If the soup is a little too ...

We don’t often write about home cooking, but with restaurants reduced to takeout-only options, we want to continue to commune with our readers over food, which means celebrating the cooking that ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. It is my first visit to Florence for more than 30 years and we are tramping through vast swaths of tourists. I ...

It's finally summertime in Alaska. The grass is green, the birds are chirping, the flowers are blooming...and it lasts, oh, roughly 9 days. Therefore, we Alaskans have to take advantage of every ...

You’ll be surprised at the burst of flavour you can get from this thrifty Tuscan soup made mainly with tomatoes and bread “As its name implies,” the Milan-born Anna del Conte explains in her book of ...