kasher

You'll find kosher restaurants, hotels and shops in Italy, mostly concentrated in Milan, Florence and Rome, as well as tours, synagogues, attractions, etc. Jewish Europe lists restaurants, bakeries, butchers and other shops across Italy.

The best place to get to know it is the restaurants and shops of the old Jewish Ghetto, along Via Portico d'Ottavia.

And that brings up the rich and weighty subject of Jewish-Italian cooking: cucina ebraica. There are famous dishes like carciofi all giudia, deep-fried baby artichokes, desserts like cassola, a kind of ricotta cheesecake, and familiar things with Jewish origins, such as fried courgette blossoms and supplì. Jews in Venice and the Po valley introduced goose and goose fat into the Italian diet.

But there are also some lesser known surprises, such as frisinsal, sfratto, foglietti, bollo, Ruota del Faraone...many of which have b

There are even little-known but fascinating branches like Libyan-Jewish cuisine.