Embrace Italian food and share delicious dishes with loved ones. Learn to make pasta from scratch and other enviable skills on a cookery holiday – try flavoursholidays.co.uk or UK courses with Welsh-Italian sisters The Chiappas (thechiappas.com), divertimenti.co.uk and foodat52.co.uk. For the time-pressed, Donald Russell has a new range of Italian ready-made dishes (donaldrussell.com).
Treat yourself to authentic Italian gelato at unicogelatocaffe.co.uk in Kent, and the Italian-inspired Mount blend coffee from volcanocoffeeworks.com. If you’re in London, visit theitaliandelicatessen.co.uk in E17 and linastores.co.uk in Soho. For mail order, try carluccios.com, vorrei.co.uk and nifeislife.com.