Italian Food

Spring, or as we say at Italian by Night, Primavera has sprung! New antipasti… New pastas with lighter sauces… And shell-fish… Plump, succulent seafood…

 I follow Jay Remer ,the Etiquette Guy, on Twitter. I love having a daily shot of guidance in behaving well! When he…

I have made gnocchi for thirty years. Three decades of practise gives a person a sense of confidence that is rock solid.…

To celebrate our tenth wedding anniversary, Ralph and I fulfilled a promise, to each other, of taking a holiday in Italy. We started in Tuscany and finished…

When I originally wrote the menus for what has become ‘Italian by Night’, it was with the assumption that whomever would use my recipes would be doing so in…

When I developed the menus for Italian by Night, I started with the antipasti. The beginning of the meal reveals the essense of…

It is amazing how critical a team approach is to the success of a restaurant. So many tiny details to see to……

Being called ‘cool’ by people half your age is awesome! Yesterday morning as I was perusing my Twitterfeed I read the tweet “barbbarbbarb I’m excited…

In twelve days, we will serve Italian food at the Urban Deli. Valentine’s Day – the annual highly anticipated evening of love…

I totally get the whole ‘no other aircraft can be anywhere within a kazillion miles of Air Force One taking off or landing’. However, when…