Tagliatelle with Slow-cooked Beef Ragu

This is a ‘bolognese’ sauce in essence, but of course we are better informed in 2018 and know we must never talk about ‘Spaghetti Bolognese’, especially to an Italian – and particularly one from Bologna! Certainly you will find meat ragù in Italy though and the first recorded version of a meat sauce served with […]

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Marcella Hazan’s Ragu

The great cookery writer and mother of Italian cooking, Marcella Hazan, died last Sunday, 29 September, at the age of 89. As I’ve written before (click here), I regularly made a Ragu – Bolognese sauce – on Fridays and tonight I decided to follow Marcella’s recipe in her The Classic Italian Cookbook carefully as a tribute to her. […]

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