Italian Easter bread is a sweet bread enjoyed around Italy and by Italian Americans, with many renditions. The origins of Italian Easter bread aren't fully known and there are many different ...

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 ...

On Easter Day, you’ll likely find Colomba Easter Bread (Pane di Pasqua) at dinner tables all over Italy, from north to south. The bread is one of the first signs that spring has arrived. And despite ...

Each loaf is specially shaped to look like the iconic Easter dove. Though it can be baked in more common baking pans, it is traditionally prepared in a special Colomba di Pasqua mold. Good news, ...

There were Eastern European sweet yeast breads of all kinds — breads braided in the shapes of animals and baskets; braided breads with colored eggs baked into them (Pane di pasqua/Italian Easter bread ...

Sweet dough scented with lemon and nutmeg is twisted into individual wreaths in these classic Italian Easter breads decorated with dyed eggs. Anna Theoktisto is a recipe tester and developer. Anna has ...

You can make this traditional and terrific Italian Easter Bread, shaped into a dove (sort of), in time to serve on Easter Sunday. I urge you to start in the next day or so. The bread keeps remarkably ...

Easter morning wouldn’t be complete for many ethnic groups without a golden braided loaf of Easter bread on the table. Here, Greek Easter bread made by Vasiliki "Vicki" Filippousis of Akron, Ohio, ...