From regional specialties to recipes that would never find their way onto restaurant menus, these dishes are all traditional Italian fare steeped in history.

(CNN) — It’s golden, grainy, sticky and tastes rather bland if served on its own. But the sheer versatility of polenta has transformed it into a culinary star, with Italy’s famed boiled cornmeal dish ...

In 1973, the Italian cookbook author Marcella Hazan published a recipe that was heard ‘round the world. It was a pasta sauce, from her first book “The Classic Italian Cook Book,” with just three ...

ST. LOUIS – Almost anyone can find something that fits their appetite at The Hill, a St. Louis neighborhood with a rich history of Italian food. But a new report says there’s one place that truly ...