What is Acidity in Wine?
Understanding acidity makes it easier to choose wines for both cooking and the dinner table. If you’ve ever heard someone…
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What Are Tannins in Wine?
If you’ve ever had a red wine that made your mouth feel dry or slightly rough, you were probably tasting…
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Baked Polenta with Bolognese (A Marcella Hazan Recipe)
Marcella Hazan’s Baked Polenta with Bolognese is an especially good way to use leftover polenta and meat sauce, layering chilled…
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Braised Pork Chops with Porcini Mushrooms (Marcella Hazan)
Braised Pork Chops with Tomatoes, Cream, and Porcini Mushrooms is a classic Italian dish made with pork chops, dried porcini,…
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What Does Dry Wine Mean?
If you’ve ever looked at a wine list or recipe and wondered what “dry wine” actually means, you’re not alone….
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Sausage and Bell Pepper Pasta Sauce (Marcella Hazan)
Marcella Hazan’s red and yellow bell pepper sauce with sausage is built around a familiar combination of peppers, tomatoes, and…
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Baked Rigatoni with Bolognese Sauce (Italian Recipe)
Baked rigatoni with Bolognese is one of those dishes that turns a good sauce into something even more satisfying. Rigatoni…
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Barbera Wine Guide
Getting to Know Barbera Barbera is a red wine from the Piedmont region in northern Italy and is known for…
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Marcella Hazan Bolognese Recipe (Classic Italian Ragù)
Marcella Hazan’s Bolognese recipe is very different from what most people think of as spaghetti with meat sauce. It’s a…
