At Marea, Michael White is revered for his use of seafood, as in this lush pasta sauce with pureed potato, salt cod and speck (a cured and smoked Italian bacon). He even adds cod tripe (from the ...

Best kept secret on the Italian pescatarian table? Baccalà. Salt cod. Yes, you heard me right: this salt-preserved delicacy makes Italy swoon. Indeed Italians are only second to the Portuguese as the ...

Today is Ash Wednesday, and in our Catholic family that means abstaining from eating meat today and on Fridays throughout the Lenten season. We are always looking for ways to eat healthier, and so we ...

One Christmas Eve when I was in elementary school, a heaping pile of buttered spaghetti sat on a platter on the buffet table in my grandmother’s warm, crowded kitchen. Since I was the kid who, to my ...

Pittsburgh Chef Jason Capps has been traveling around the world! Now that he's back in town, we invited him into the kitchen to us make us a treat. 24-36 hours in advance, cover salted cod with water ...

When Chef Carmelo LaMotta, owner of LaMotta’s Italian Restaurant in south Fort Myers, makes his Christmas Eve grocery list, there's no mistaking his Italian roots. In addition to the old standbys of ...

If you've ever visited an Italian market and wondered what the dried fish "salt cod" - also known as baccale -is used for, you wouldn't be alone. What good could come from a fish as dry as a wooden ...