BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - Fig cookies are mainstay on the tables of Italians in Louisiana at every holiday and family gathering. They are especially prominent on St. Joseph’s Day Altars found in homes ...

A holiday treat straight from Sicily. Mandola's Deli in Houston has been turning out Italian classic for almost 50 years. The Mandola family takes you inside their kitchen to share how they're still ...

The stereotype of the Italian nonna, or grandmother, attempting to feed you until you burst holds true — especially at the holidays. No sooner had any family member walked through her door than my own ...

Italian families have certain traditions, and a lot of them circle around food. If you ever go to an Italian wedding on the East Coast, you would be amazed by the cookie table. Unless you have seen it ...

Nick Scramuzza grew up eating Italian cookies, and not just at the holidays. He once lived blocks away from Angelo Brocato’s original location on Ursulines Street in the French Quarter, and cucidati ...

A column I published earlier this year in January, about my encounter last fall with cherished fig trees grown on the Canadian border of Niagara Falls, attracted the keen eye of reader Gina Geiss of ...

The Sons & Daughters of Italy and C. Colombo Lodge 1315 will host its annual Cuccidati Contest and Italian cookie sale and festival on Nov. 12 at a new venue, the Pittsburg Youth Development Center.

I believe there’s room on the table for all the cookies during December. Sure, we have our must-bakes—mine are gingerbread cookies and these nameless, cherry-spiked butter cookies—but you should leave ...

The first thing you notice is the cookies. Row after row and tray after tray of thumbprint and butter cookies take up the top two shelves. Lemon, caramel coconut, Nutella, chocolate ganache, peanut ...

HOUSTON – Frank Mandola started Mandola’s Deli in southeast Houston in 1975. Since that very first year, he has carried on his family’s tradition of making Italian Fig Cookies by hand for his ...

Expressions of Italian heritage this time of year are usually not subtle. It’s the heaping helping of pasta and sauce, the zooma-zooma music of Louis Prima, the St. Joseph’s Day parade filling the ...