Margaret Mundras makes Italian Rum Cake often using this recipe. The cake is delicious, and she hopes you enjoy trying it. Make Green Tomato Mincemeat and process it in six pint jars. When you are in ...

This is a classic cassata (Sicilian rum cake) — sponge cake, liquor, candied fruits, ricotta cheese — minus the marzipan. Incorporate 1/3 of the whites into the yolk mixture. Sift 1/4 cup of the flour ...

I was feeling sad and nostalgic as I pulled Mama D's Homestyle Italian Cookbook from the shelf. I had just heard of her death. Giovanna D'Agostino, known as Mama D, owned a restaurant in the Dinkytown ...

Mention Dianda's Italian-American Pastry Co. to any old-school San Franciscan and what inevitably follows is a misty-eyed look of longing, followed by some variation on the phrase "time-honored family ...