Walk into a really hopping tapas bar in Spain or a swanky little osteria in Italy on a summer evening, and right at the front door you’re likely to be confronted with a long table full of bowls of ...

The broad, flat, edible-pod Romano bean is also known as an Italian green bean, and as such, it’s often subjected to the thorough cooking Italians favor when it comes to vegetables, a realm where al ...

Jim Dixon wrote about food for WW for more than 20 years, but these days most of his time is spent at his olive oil-focused specialty food business Wellspent Market. Jim’s always loved to eat, and he ...

If you haven’t eaten Romano green beans fresh from the garden, you can’t imagine how delicious they are. The difference between homegrown beans and the frozen or commercially farmed beans from the ...

I had never heard of Romano beans before working in a restaurant kitchen. We’d buy them in bulk from a local farm, then spend the entire summer trying to figure out what to do with them. I’d snack on ...

Once, in a restaurant in Puglia, Italy, I ate an entire burrata by myself. It was not one of those petite, tennis-ball-size burratas that you see surrounded by heirloom tomatoes in restaurants here in ...