Italians love to use herbs in their food. However, they do so with care, and won't simply throw in a handful of oregano without thinking it through beforehand. Fresh Italian herbs have a very expressive flavour, and an overly enthusiastic combination can soon mean that the authentic flavour is lost. So how should you use herbs to cook Italian…

Two lovely tomatoes but with totally different flavours. While one is ideal as the basis for a soup or for grilling, the other is perfect for a salad or snack. Do you often wonder which one of these two tomatoes you should be using? We'd like to help you. Roma tomatoes (plum tomatoes) always have darker flesh than the skin. They have a…

Two delicious, truly Italian cheeses which look almost identical but do not taste the same. You'd really like to taste both of them but that's not always an option in the supermarkets. No wonder you sometimes don't know which cheese to choose! We'd therefore like to advise you on making the right choice. The flavour makes all the difference. One…