"I loved my school dinners," she says. "We had tapioca, semolina, treacle sponge pudding, as well as jam roly-poly, cake with icing and sprinkles, chocolate cake and pink custard, and more." ...

Traditionally from Southern Italy, this simple eggless pasta dough is made from semolina flour and water. It's a great base recipe for many Italian pasta shapes. In 2020, I spent week after week ...