On Easter Day, you’re likely to find Colomba Easter Bread (Colomba Pasquale) all over Italy, from north to south. This is remarkable in a country that takes great pride in its regional bread ...

To prepare the chocolate colomba, start by making the first dough. Pour the sifted flour into a bowl (1). Then, in a jug, pour the fresh yeast, room temperature milk, and also the water (2). Stir with ...

This is Highly Recommend, a column dedicated to what people in the food industry are obsessed with eating, drinking, and buying right now. But this year I had my first colomba, an Italian yeasted cake ...

Abbondanza — Italian for "abundance" — is a bi-monthly column from writer Michael La Corte in which the author shares his tips for making traditional Italian-American recipes even better. For many, ...

A dove-shaped cake studded with candied peel and topped with a nutty, sugary crust, the Colomba di Pasqua cake is a fixture on the Italian Easter table and a counterpart to the Christmas panettone.

While panettone may get most of the press, Colomba is right up there with the most delicious sweets of Easter coming from Italy. Here's why. My Italian-Australian family has many traditions, some are ...