At Sauced & Found, we offer a variety of catering and touring services to clients in and around Napoli, Sorrento and the Amalfi Coast. Our main lines of services offered are: Private chef, Food and wine tours, Cooking classes, and Travel interpreters.
All in Cooking Guides
With travel to Italy somewhat challenging these days, now is a time to curate your ideal Italian pantry. Sure, Italian ingredients are more available than ever. But don’t waste your money buying extremely expensive imported oddities. Most Italian homes, especially Neapolitan ones, feature a few staples — dried pasta, tomato passata, oregano and olive oil. Never have I seen an overcrowded spice cabinet in Naples. The basics are simply salt, pepper, oregano.
Making fresh pasta is not as easy as it looks. It requires patience and practice. And space. Learn to make fresh pasta with us in our step-by-step guide.
While pizza is the undisputed king of Neapolitan cuisine abroad, it is the humble loaf of pane (bread) that crowns every Neapolitan table. As a source of comfort and succor, it democratizes the family meal. No Neapolitan feast is complete without it. How else would we sop up that remaining patina of sauce on our plates? We review five ways to use stale bread.
By mid-November pumpkin pie and pumpkin spice lattes are all the rage in America. In Italy however, we eat pumpkin for dinner. These aren’t your typical Halloween sugar pumpkins though. They are more closely related to the Japanese kabocha pumpkin and butternut squash. In the true spirit of cucina pover, zucca, as prepared in the Italian kitchen is the wholesome star of a low key vegetarian meal. Below are our favorite pumpkin preparations.
Far before the rise of the Roman Empire, Campania was already cultivating an intriguing array of grapes and fermenting into richly volcanic wines. Ancient Greek mariners fleeing the Trojan Wars (at least if Virgil is to be believed) brought the first vines or vitis vinifera to Southern Italy. The first red varietals included Piedirosso and Aglianco- a grape whose very name means ‘Hellenic’ in local dialect. Later Roman nobility would consider Campania’s wines the best in the Empire. While Campania has experienced invasions, volcanic explosions, earthquakes and plagues, her vinicultural traditions continue to surprise and delight. Here we outline the most notable Campania red wines. You can find the companion Guide to Campania White Wines here.
A comprehensive guide to the cheeses of Campania. Form fresh to aged, mild and stinky- Campania is a region of many glorious cheeses!
Italy protects its food and wine with a variety of control designations. Learn about these designations with the helpful Sauced & Found guide to IGP, DOP, DOC and DOCG. Become and educated consumer and have fun tasting the foods of Italy in the process.
The Italian meal is more marathon than sprint. Actually, more accurately, the Italian meal is a languorous amble down a country road with ample comfort breaks and conversation. I fondly recall my first real Italian meal at a country inn somewhere on a hilltop in Val d’Orcia. On break from my real job in Rome working as a contractor for the British Government, I was eager to burn through my generous per diem- the same per diem that my more prudent colleagues would use to pay off their student loans.
I did not know the first thing about making pasta. In the not so distant past, I often boiled pasta to oblivion and then left it in the cooling water before draining it in a colander because I was simply too busy doing something else- something important like watching Netflix or reading US Weekly magazine. Many often think of pasta as a kind of last resort meal alternative to ordering take-out. Boil water, throw in pasta and then throw whatever is in fridge together and eat- preferably standing up while simultaneously clicking away on phone, watching Netflix and posting solipsistic photos on Instagram. Pasta really can be that easy to make. And it definitely is a viable and potentially healthful alternative to freebasing Uber Eats. It also can be incredibly elegant and infinitely more satisfying when following a few essential chronological cooking tips towards making the perfect plate of pasta.
