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Saturday: Food & Drink

Saffron brings a golden hue to this fresh combination of zucchini and pasta

This pasta dish, a riff on an offering served at Trattoria Bertozzi in Bologna, Italy, is a golden, fresh combination of guanciale (cured pork cheek), fragrant saffron, summery zucchini and short, curly pasta. In this recipe from our cookbook “ Milk Street Backroads Italy,” we opted for ...

This steak salad is a trattoria staple and the perfect summer lunch

By CHRISTOPHER KIMBALL Christopher Kimball's Milk Street Straccetti di manzo, which translates roughly from the Italian to "little rags of beef," is a trattoria staple. The cooking is minimal and quick, making this ideal for a weeknight dinner, but the beef must be thinly sliced. In this ...

Can cottage cheese really do all that? Inside the viral dairy craze

By The Associated Press Cottage cheese is having a major moment. TikTok boasts more than 76,000 posts with #cottagecheese, one-third popped up just this year. Somehow, this lumpy, creamy curd has become Gen Z's favorite kitchen hack, and it's not just for bodybuilders anymore. There was a ...

Tangy cherry preserves bring balance to this ancient ricotta tart

By CHRISTOPHER KIMBALL Christopher Kimball's Milk Street At Armando al Pantheon, a trattoria in Rome, meals often are punctuated with a slice of torta antica roma— a rustic tart inspired by the traditional Roman combination of ricotta and cherries. It's exceptionally light, with ...