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Rachel Roddy

Rachel Roddy is an English food writer and author based in Rome. Her three books include An A-Z of Pasta

February 2025

  • Stand and deliver: Rachel’s selection of olive oils.

    The Filter
    The food filter: which supermarket has the best extra-virgin olive oil?

    From luxury Sicilian to budget buys, our Rome correspondent tests supermarket extra-virgin olive oils – and reveals how much you should spend

January 2025

  • Rachel Roddy's tuna and potato cakes.

    A kitchen in Rome
    Rachel Roddy’s recipe for potato and tinned fish cakes

    A thrifty and delicious store-cupboard meal
  • Rachel Roddy's apple, pear and persimmon fruit crumble.

    A kitchen in Rome
    Rachel Roddy’s recipe for apple, pear and persimmon crumble

    It’s crumble time, and in Rome that also means super-juicy persimmons join the usual suspects in this classic winter pud
    • A kitchen in Rome
      Rachel Roddy’s recipe for pisarei, or leftover bread pasta

    • A kitchen in Rome
      Rachel Roddy’s recipe for lentil and spinach soup

    • The Filter
      The food filter: which supermarket has the best tinned chopped tomatoes?

December 2024

  • Rachel Roddy's ham baked in bread

    A kitchen in Rome
    Rachel Roddy’s recipe for ham baked in bread

  • Very sociable, just as scrumptious: Rachel Roddy's Livornese fish soup-stew, AKA cacciucco.

    A kitchen in Rome
    Rachel Roddy’s recipe for a sociable fish stew

  • Rachel Roddy's certosino di Bologna.

    A kitchen in Rome
    Rachel Roddy’s recipe for fruit and nut cake from Bologna, or certosino di Bologna

  • Rachel Roddy's spiced pear and chocolate jam.

    A kitchen in Rome
    Carla’s spiced pear and chocolate jam: Rachel Roddy’s homemade gift recipe

  • A kitchen in Rome
    Rachel Roddy’s recipe for red cabbage, apple and chestnut pie with ricotta pastry

  • Observer Food Monthly's 20 best recipes
    Rachel Roddy’s recipe for mushroom paté

November 2024

  • Rachel Roddy's polenta with butter and cheese and mushrooms.

    A kitchen in Rome
    Rachel Roddy’s recipe for polenta with buttery garlic mushrooms

  • Rachel Roddy's cauliflower polpette with cheese sauce.

    A kitchen in Rome
    Rachel Roddy’s recipe for cauliflower polpette with cheese sauce

October 2024

  • Rachel Roddy's rice, chestnut, milk and bay soup.

    A kitchen in Rome
    Rachel Roddy’s recipe for rice, chestnut, milk and bay soup

  • Rachel Roddy’s bread, sage and lemon frittata.

    A kitchen in Rome
    Rachel Roddy’s recipe for bread, sage and lemon frittata

  • Rachel Roddy's pumpkin, barley and lentil soup

    A kitchen in Rome
    Rachel Roddy’s recipe for pumpkin, lentil and barley soup

  • Rachel Roddy's bean stew with lots of herbs.

    A kitchen in Rome
    Rachel Roddy’s recipe for bean stew with lots of herbs

September 2024

  • Rachel Roddy's chicken and grapes.

    A kitchen in Rome
    Rachel Roddy’s recipe for braised chicken with grapes, wine and vinegar

  • Rachel Roddy's spaghetti carbonara.

    A kitchen in Rome
    Rachel Roddy’s recipe for spaghetti alla carbonara like it’s 1979

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