Struggling in my father’s hands/Striving against my swaddling bands
Bound and weary, I thought best/To sulk upon my mother’s breast.
(William Blake, Infant Sorrow, Songs of Experience)

Italian cuisine is relatively simple to make, cut for improvisation depending on the ingredients available at the moment. A down-to-earth culinary art bearing just one basic principle: using fresh Italian ingredients of high quality.

Click on the links of the grey bar above for fundamental Italian recipes. Once you have come to grips with them, try to improvise over them: but don’t try improvising when it comes to the quality of their ingredients. Capìsci?