Italian Sesame Seed Cookies (Biscotti Reginelle or Queen’s Cookies) are easy to make. These Sicilian cookies are not too ...

Expressions of Italian heritage this time of year are usually not subtle. It’s the heaping helping of pasta and sauce, the zooma-zooma music of Louis Prima, the St. Joseph’s Day parade filling the ...

Every time she’s in the kitchen, Charlotte Amorebello Remakus pays homage to her heritage. Remakus’ grandparents were off-the-boat Italians, hailing from Sicily. Food often is a huge part of Italian ...

Along with the holiday season comes holiday cookie baking. At The Times, we like to offer bakers new additions to their cookie repertoires. Check out, for example, cooking columnist Ben Mims’ “12 Days ...

Italian holiday cookies from Garibaldina Society members: clockwise from the left, pizzelle, "Brick" cookies, cuccidati, cartellate, pignoli and "Versace" rainbow cookies. (Silvia Razgova / For The ...

I’ve rarely given much thought to where cookies come from, and neither had the kid. But he could tell I hadn’t picked these up at the supermarket. “Where’d you get these?” he asked, a glazed lemon ...

Two Italian brothers with a family history of baking have transferred their culinary skills from Sicily to San Jose. The Palermo pair, Marco and Giacomo Montevago, has opened the appropriately named ...

The Maggiore Group is bringing a little bit of la dolce vita to Phoenix with a new Italian bakery called The Sicilian Baker, opening at 10 a.m. Wednesday, March 20. To celebrate on opening day, The ...

The stereotype of the Italian nonna, or grandmother, attempting to feed you until you burst holds true — especially at the holidays. No sooner had any family member walked through her door than my own ...