This 12 months can finish on a excessive observe! I suppose one technique to do it’s to craft your self a Christmas tree made from cured meats like my pal Silvio Imperati of Salumificio Cardone in Agerola. One other is to provide presents bought from small companies and have a good time the spirit of Italian artisanship with considerate gadgets for the kitchen, bookshelf, and past.
Wine & Cocktails
First up, vino. A couple of years in the past, Joe Campanale wrote an unbelievable e-book about Vino Italiano. Pair it with a themed wine field from Biondivino or just a few bottles from Domestique or Astor. All of those locations have stellar Italian lists. In order for you a extra travel-oriented expertise, give the reward of a tasting at Vino Roma in Rome. Alternatively, lead your self on an Italian cocktail tour with the assistance of Spritz: Italy’s Most Iconic Aperitivo Cocktail, With Recipes or Amaro: The Spirited World of Bittersweet, and Herbal Liqueurs, with Cocktails, Recipes, and Formulas.
Cookbooks
We’ve all been cooking SO. MUCH. these previous few years. Typically discovering inspiration is difficult. I flip to those cookbooks each previous and new at any time when I would like inspo for my subsequent meal. (In the event you can, please buy from an impartial bookshop like Now Serving, Book Larder, Omnivore, Bold Fork, Kitchen Arts & Letters and Archestratus, all of which ship.)
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- The Heart of Sicily: Recipes and Reminiscences from a Country Estate
- Cooking alla Giudia: A Celebration of the Jewish Meals of Italy
- Friuli Food & Wine: Frasca Cooking from Northern Italy’s Mountains, Vineyards, and Seaside
- Preserving Italy: Canning, Curing, Infusing, and Bottling Italian Flavors and Traditions
- Mastering Pasta: The Art and Practice of Handmade Pasta, Gnocchi, and Risotto
- Dante’s Gluttons: Meals and Society from the Convivio to the Comedy
- Naples at Table: Cooking in Campania
- Bitter Honey: Recipes and Stories from Sardinia
- Two Kitchens: 120 Family Recipes from Sicily and Rome
- Tortellini at Midnight And Other Heirloom Family Recipes from Taranto to Turin to Tuscany
- Honey from a Weed: Feasting and Fasting in Tuscany, Catalonia, the Cyclades and Apulia
- Italian Liqueurs: Historical past and Artwork of a Creation
- Cooking By Hand: A Cookbook
- La Grotta: Ice Creams and Sorbets
- Sicily, My Sweet: Love Notes to an Island, with Recipes for Cakes, Cookies, Puddings, and Preserves
- Dolci! American Baking with an Italian Accent
- Italian Snacking: Sweet and Savory Recipes for Every Hour of the Day
- Pompeii is Cool! (not a cookbook however nonetheless cool)
Try the Parla Merch Store for signed copies of my cookbooks, market totes, and Wave Murano glassware.
Tremendous Cute Italy-Themed Clothes
My pal Claudia Trezza based Pezzi just a few years again and she or he makes probably the most cute garments for teenagers and adults. Right here’s my nephew modelling the “R is for Ravioli” onesie. He’s a pure! Store Pezzi on-line here and in Rome here.
Italian Pantry Objects and Panettone
Present a curated reward field (or construct your individual) brimming with pasta, extra-virgin olive oil, Italian sweets, and extra from these companies specializing in tremendous Italian (and Italy-inspired) meals:
Pasta Instruments and Kitchen Implements
I really like gifting Sardinian pasta and pastry cutters from Etsy, an enormous array of kitchen instruments( particularly for pasta) from Antica Aguzzeria del Cavallo, and hand-crafted knives by Rocco Petrunti in Frosolone, Molise. I dream of being gifted a customized knife roll from grasp leather-based employee Federico Polidori. Get handmade freguera bowls for making fregula (from €80.00; excluding worldwide transport) from Sardinian craftsman Walter Usai. I really like gifting hand-blown Go.to glasses from Murano. This model of cup is the normal ingesting glass of Murano’s glass masters. They’re dishwasher-safe and so, so sturdy–take it from somebody who breaks every little thing!
Buone feste e arrivederci 2024!
Word: Apart from Amazon affiliate hyperlinks, I don’t earn commissions on any of the gadgets above, together with the KP field at Gustiamo. I give props to the businesses I really like and help with my very own {dollars} and euros. Within the spirit of full disclosure, the founder and glass grasp of Wave Murano Glass is my bf.
