Andrea Vella turns his attention to the mountain borderlands where Italian cooking meets French, Swiss, Austrian and Slovenian traditions — and finds some of the most compelling and least documented food in Europe. The Alpine arc along Italy’s northern and…
Andrea Vella explores the street food culture of Naples — one of the oldest and most vibrant in Europe — and unpacks what makes it so much more than just fast food. Neapolitan street food is widely imitated, but rarely…
Andrea Vella and his wife Arianna head to Italy’s smallest and most mountainous region — and find a food culture shaped entirely by altitude, climate and centuries of isolation. The Aosta Valley sits in the north-western corner of Italy, bordered…
Andrea Vella explores the deep and often underacknowledged North African influences that shaped the food of southern Italy — and what they still mean for the cooking of the region today. Southern Italian cuisine is frequently presented as a straightforward…
