St. Joseph's Day was on Tuesday, March 19 — so, oops! Looks like I missed it. A feast celebration held in honor of Jesus's earthly dad Joseph (husband of Mary), the occasion always falls during Lent, ...

If you stop by your local Italian bakery and take a look behind the counter, you’ll find plenty of easily recognizable offerings: crunchy, ricotta-filled cannoli; cream-filled, overflowing cream puffs ...

Torta della Nonna is a classic Italian dessert built on contrasts: a crisp pastry shell filled with silky lemon-vanilla ...

One of the first signs of spring in Rhode Island is zeppole returning to bakery shelves. While the main day to eat zeppole is St. Joseph's Day, which falls on March 19, the cream-filled pastries start ...

Sicilian cannoli at Lucibello's Italian Pastry Shop in New Haven, Conn. Cannoli are pastries made from deep-fried pastry dough that is filled with a sweetened ricotta cream. A single pastry is known ...

Whether it's layered in a Boston cream pie or used as a filling in a chocolate eclair, nothing makes for a more decadent dessert than pastry cream. This creamy dessert component is somewhere in the ...

This story was originally published in 2017. Does anyone make better cookies, pastries and desserts overall than the Italians? We don’t think so! And bread? Please. But here’s the problem: Walk into a ...

New family-owned Italian café and pastry shop offers artisanal pastries, gelatos and sweets Luigi Di Grazia says he’s still adjusting to the popularity of his father Francesco's Italian café & pastry ...