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Chestnut focaccia with Pancetta and Rosemary 🌰🥓
Boy, I sure went down a rabbit hole with this one. I had first been inspired by a Jamie Oliver recipe years ago, and have been making some version of it, with different tweaks and turns, ever since. T

Il Ponente is the western side of Liguria, stretching from Genoa to the French border, and every time I go, I come home even more in love with it. It has medieval towns, baroque churches, some of the finest olive oil in the country, remarkable wines

These fried pumpkin ravioli hail from the border where the Italian and French rivieras meet. Called barbagiuai on one side, barbajuan on the other, the exact filling varies from town to town. The dough is pasta matta, ‘crazy pasta,’ which

Four hundred years apart, two people spent their lives building impossibile things in the Italian countryside. One carved monsters into bedrock while the other built worlds out of mirrors and mosaics. Today on Laurel’s Kitchen I explore two rem

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