We have finished main dishes and their wine pairings for all twenty regions of Italy. Now we're working on the desserts. Keep coming back, regional Italian food and fine wine is one of our major priorities. To avoid disappointment we suggest wines that may well be available in your region of North America.
If you don't feel like scrolling down the page, your can access the regions in alphabetical order.
Abruzzi Red Abruzzi White Apulia Red Apulia WhiteClick to read I Love Italian Regional Cooking - Pairing Sicilian Cuisine With Red Wine"...Again and again I had to strike suggested wines off the list because they aren’t available in North America, at least not yet. So maybe you should plan a trip to this lovely, distinctive island ... "
Click to read I Love Italian Regional Cooking - Pairing Sicilian Cuisine With White Wine"...All the more reason to plan a trip to this great island. Just ... "
Click to read I Love Italian Regional Cooking - Pairing Sicilian Pastries And Desserts With Sweet Wine"...Avoid Marsala cooking wines like the plague, even ... "
Click to read I Love Italian Regional Cooking - Pairing Veneto Cuisine With Red Wine"Blaue Forelle (Trout in Poached Wine Vinegar, literally Blue Trout) is one of the highlights of the local cuisine. It gets its name from the fish’s skin which turns steely blue when ... "
Click to read I Love Italian Regional Cooking - Pairing Veneto Cuisine With White Wine"...With all this water, you can expect some fish and seafood specialties to accompany the region’s white wines. We are ... "
Click to read I Love Italian Regional Cooking - Pairing Liguria Cuisine With Red Wine"... Liguria attractions include Cinque Terre, five little seaside villages that might steal your heart and the bustling port of Genoa, Christopher Columbus’ home base... "
Click to read I Love Italian Regional Cooking - Pairing Liguria Cuisine With White Wine"...A word of warning, as one might expect from its price, a Prosecco is far from a Champagne. But who ever heard of Champagne and snails? Actually, ... "
Click to read I Love Italian Regional Cooking - Pairing Friuli Cuisine With Red Wine"...Do you want to use such a fine wine as a Brunello for cooking? That’s up to you, but ... "
Click to read I Love Italian Regional Cooking - Pairing Friuli Cuisine With White Wine"...If you’re not quite so adventurous, go for a Risotto di Marano... "
Click to read I Love Italian Regional Cooking - Pairing Piedmont Cuisine With Red Wine"... With all these influences Piedmont it’s no surprise that Piedmont is home to some great food. "
Click to read I Love Italian Regional Cooking - Pairing Piedmont Cuisine With White Wine"... Piedmont is landlocked. This means that fish and seafood play a lesser role in the excellent Piedmont cuisine than they do in many other Italian regions... "
Click to read I Love Italian Regional Cooking - Pairing Abruzzi Cuisine With Red Wine"...according to Craig Claiborne, at the time Food Editor of the New York Times, Italy’s best food was found in Abruzzi... "
Click to read I Love Italian Regional Cooking - Pairing Abruzzi Cuisine With White Wine"...The Adriatic Sea and inland lakes and streams provide a wide variety of fish and shellfish, some... "
Click to read I Love Italian Regional Cooking - Pairing Tuscany Cuisine With Red Wine"... Super Tuscans, red wines made according to winemakers’ art rather than bureaucrats’ fiats blew a hole in the official Italian wine classifications... "
Click to read I Love Italian Regional Cooking - Pairing Tuscany Cuisine With White Wine"... Gamberi e Cannelli alla Toscana (Shrimps with Cannellini Beans) is very quick, except that you have to soak these Italian white kidney beans overnight... "
Click to read I Love Italian Regional Cooking - Pairing Latium Cuisine With Red Wine"... As the Italian writer Silvio Negro said, “Roma, non basta una vita,” Rome, a lifetime is not enough. Just so you don’t get the wrong idea, he ... "
Click to read I Love Italian Regional Cooking - Pairing Latium Cuisine With White Wine"It’s quick, it’s simple, it’s delicious; Fettuccine Alfredo (Fettuccine in Double Cream). I hope ... "
Click to read I Love Italian Regional Cooking - Pairing Calabria Cuisine With Red Wine"...When you taste the delicious local food you wouldn’t think that Calabria’s soil tends to be poor. "
Click to read I Love Italian Regional Cooking - Pairing Calabria Cuisine With White Wine"...Does anybody out there have a wine pairing for raw onions? "
Click to read I Love Italian Regional Cooking - Pairing Sardinia Cuisine With Red Wine"...And if your pockets are full, you can even hobnob with the jet set. ... "
Click to read I Love Italian Regional Cooking - Pairing Sardinia Cuisine With White Wine"...Culturally Sardinia is decades away from most of Italy. It’s a great tourist destination and ... "
Click to read I Love Italian Regional Cooking - Pairing Umbria Cuisine With Red Wine"...You may have to substitute a farm-raised duck for the wild duck, other pasta for the Pappardelle, ... "
Click to read I Love Italian Regional Cooking - Pairing Umbria Cuisine With White Wine"...You could replace this wine with a bubbly Prosecco DOC from Veneto but that would be like replacing the truffles with ... "
Click to read I Love Italian Regional Cooking - Pairing Apulia Cuisine With Red Wine"...Believe it or not, some of the local olive trees are said to be one thousand years old, and... "
Click to read I Love Italian Regional Cooking - Pairing Apulia Cuisine With White Wine"...Given that this region was once quite poor, Apulians know how to make the best of the available culinary resources. "
Click to read I Love Italian Regional Cooking - Pairing Molise Cuisine With Red Wine"...Some say that the interior is still full of bears and wolves, but we have no such recipes, much less wine pairings. So you’ll have to make do with ... "
Click to read I Love Italian Regional Cooking - Pairing Molise Cuisine With White Wine"...As you might guess, many white wine pairings involve fish and seafood. However, there are also some surprises. "
Click to read I Love Italian Regional Cooking - Pairing Emilia-Romagna Cuisine With Red Wine"...I cannot suggest any wine to accompany the sausage that carries its name. "
Click to read I Love Italian Regional Cooking - Pairing Friuli Cuisine With White Wine"...It’s quite prosperous and is known as the gourmet capital of Italy. On the other hand, ... "
Click to read I Love Italian Regional Cooking - Pairing The Marches Cuisine With Red Wine"You haven’t eaten a cheese pizza until you’ve had a local Pizza al Formaggio. Probably the secret is ... "
Click to read I Love Italian Regional Cooking - Pairing The Marches Cuisine With White Wine"...Given its fairly long coastline, the region boasts lot of fish and seafood specialties. "
Click to read I Love Italian Regional Cooking - Pairing Trentino Cuisine With Red Wine"...The best Speck come from local farmers’ smokehouses but you may have to be satisfied with a commercial version... "
Click to read I Love Italian Regional Cooking - Pairing Trentino Cuisine With White Wine"...With all this water, you can expect some fish and seafood specialties to accompany the region’s white wines. We are ... "
Click to read I Love Italian Regional Cooking - Pairing Campania Cuisine With Red Wine"...with the eruption of Mount Vesuvius some two thousand years ago. Campania claims to be the home of pasta and pizza. We do some pasta below. "
Click to read I Love Italian Regional Cooking - Pairing Campania Cuisine With White Wine"...Campania claims to be the home of pasta and pizza. We do some pizza below. "
Click to read I Love Italian Regional Cooking - Pairing Val d'Aosta Cuisine With Wine"...Maybe you should cook this dish twice and see if going home-made is worth the effort. Needless to say, ... "
Click to read I Love Italian Regional Cooking - Pairing Basilicata Cuisine With Red Wine"...The region is known for caves that have been occupied for thousands of years and have now become... "
Click to read I Love Italian Regional Cooking - Pairing Basilicata Cuisine With White Wine"...Historically the region has been quite poor, which may explain at least partially its cuisine that knows how ... "
Click to read I Love Italian Regional Cooking - Pairing Lombardy Cuisine With Red Wine"Poor old Lombardy has no seacoast. So she has to make do with some of the finest lakes in all of Europe. The region also includes... "
Click to read I Love Italian Regional Cooking - Pairing Lombardy Cuisine With White Wine"...If, like me, you’re not wild about Sea Bass or you’re worried about its possible extinction substitute another fish... "
Click to read I Love Italian Regional Cooking - Pairing Lombardy Pastries And Desserts With Sweet Wine"Panettone is a classic Italian Christmas cake. The Lombardy version... "