In my Italian family you knew Lent (40 days of deprivation, soul-searching, and fasting) was almost over when the annual baking contest began. This was no casual competition. This was the Easter Bread ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." There's something undeniably lovely about the smell of fresh bread wafting through the house! But when ...

Abbondanza — Italian for "abundance" — is a bi-monthly column from writer Michael La Corte in which the author shares his tips for making traditional Italian-American recipes even better. For many, ...

Robert recently wrote about sanguinaccio, the Lenten chocolate pudding made with fresh pigs’ blood available at Bensonhurst’s Villabate Bakery. Villabate was opened in 1980 by a Sicilian family, and ...

Easter is this Sunday and families will be gathering for egg hunts and ham, and Easter breads perfect for carb-filled sweet brunches. We traveled to three bakeries where they're rolling out the dough ...

For those who celebrate Easter, there are certain foods that come to mind when thinking of the holiday. When it comes to Easter dinner, many families enjoy ham, mashed potatoes, dinner rolls; you get ...

If you've ever attended an Easter brunch, you're probably familiar with traditional Easter foods like glazed ham and hot cross buns. "My mom used to make them and now I do, too," Ree Drummond says ...