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10 Fascinating Basil Facts You Never Knew

The basil harvest is upon us! It’s one of the world’s most popular herbs – and with good reason – but how much do you...

Quick and Easy Vegan Chickpea Curry

Is Pesto good for kids?

When you’re looking for a speedy supper solution, the combination of natural ingredients and lip-smacking flavours in a good quality Pesto makes it a great...

10 Benefits of The Mediterranean Diet

What is The Mediterranean Diet? And why is so good for you? Here’s everything you need to know! The Mediterranean diet is based on eating...

Top tips to create delicious family meals for under £10

Between work, kids’ activities and taking a few precious moments to relax, you can often feel lacking in the time (or energy) to be in...

How to make pasta dishes healthier

5 easy tricks to make pasta healthier  Pasta lovers, rejoice! You can have your spaghetti and eat it! Does pasta make you put on weight?...

How to make pizza healthier

Pizza is a much-loved Italian favourite for many. However, it often hits the addictive ‘bliss point’ which is the optimal point of various taste sensations...

The 18 Commandments of Italian Cooking

Do it the Italian way with our list of helpful Italian cooking tips to make your dishes sing. COFFEE 1. Never order a cappuccino after...

Go plant-based

 How to embrace a plant-based diet  A plant-based diet is any diet that focuses around foods derived from plant sources. This can include fruit, vegetables,...

Cipriani Bellini: A Taste of Timeless Elegance at Harry's Bar

Cipriani Bellini is a renowned and timeless cocktail, famous for its simple yet exquisite combination of ingredients. This iconic drink is synonymous with Harry's Bar,...

The meaning of "Healthy Eating"

What we eat largely impacts the way our body functions. Eating poorly or well can make a big difference on both the physical and mental...

The best Corporate Christmas Gifts for employees and clients

Finding the perfect Christmas gift for employees and clients is an important job and not always easy. The right gift can help to build business...

Why Italian Christmas Hampers make the perfect festive gift

Italian Christmas Hampers are one of the most popular festive gifts for friends and family. Packed with Italian food and drink favourites like Panettone, Italian...

Top 10 Italian birthday gift ideas

Italy is famous for its culture, history, food and wine and, as such, has an abundance of Italian birthday gift ideas for everyone – gifts...

What is Panettone?

What is Panettone and our recommendations for the best Panettone to buy online Panettone is a traditional Italian Christmas cake originating from Milan. It's a sweet,...

William Sitwell's Italian Wine Selection

Who better than the UK’s top wine expert, William Sitwell, to help you choose the best wines for your summer? Discover his recommendations, brilliant tasting...

Find the perfect Father’s Day present for your Papa – take our quiz!

Forget socks! At Sacla’ we’ve got so many tasty Father’s Day Gift Box and hamper ideas for dads, stepdads, grandads to say thanks for being simply...

Pandoro, Panforte and Italian Christmas Cakes

In Italy, the holiday season is a time to come together with family and friends, and the table is a focal point of these joyous...

All you need to know about Italian Colomba cake

Colomba di Pasqua (to give Colomba cake its full name) translates as 'dove of Easter' and was created in the 1930s by Angelo Motta. Ever...

All Things Italian

Over the last thirty years since we first pioneered Pesto and brought it to the UK from its homeland in Italy. We’ve watched with interest and...

Focaccia di Recco

Recco is a suburb of Genoa in the Ligurian region of Italy: it’s not particularly beautiful having been rebuilt in the late forties and early...

An Italian Christmas...with a touch of Truffle Pesto

It’s that festive time of year, so we want to share some of our Italian Christmas traditions with you. Marianna, who is the head of...

Aubergine Pesto Dip

In our 30th year, we’ve spent quite a bit of time tidying archives and sharing happy memories. Some of our more observant visitors will remember...

Pasta alla Chitarra with Truffle Pesto

Gratitude is owed to the Romans for the abundance of chestnut trees in this country. Whilst the season is relatively short - peeled, canned or...

White Truffle Season

These misty, Autumnal days mark the truffle season in our home region of Piemonte, where it is a particularly good and plentiful year for this...

Hurrah for the Basil Season

This is an exciting and important time of year for us – it’s Pesto season and the basil harvest for this delicious sauce is in...

A Brief History of Food: A talk with William Sitwell

In recent years, technology has developed so much and given us many more options in the kitchen. Yet we don’t often think about the history...

Christmas with Aldo Zilli

We're all getting in the Christmas spirit here at Sacla', so we asked our friend Aldo Zilli to tell us about Christmas as a child...

Cicchetti

What is Italian Tapas Called? Cicchetti, these are little dishes or snacks served in the bars and busy restaurants in and around Venice and other...

Gorgeous Greens

Our founder, Secondo, knew that Asti was a great garden. He started Sacla’ by trading vegetables bought at low prices when there was a glut in...

Holidays in Vulcanello

Italy inspires our daily work in very many ways, and our team here in the UK love to travel and explore this beautiful country. Here,...

Non-Stop Pesto

At this time of year, we are flat out in Asti turning basil into Pesto – and it’s every bit as romantic as you would...

Seasonal delights - Agretti

What ‘Tis the season for agretti, also known as saltwort, Roscano, monk’s beard and land seaweed (and indeed, it is sometimes compared with samphire). How...

No, No, Negroni

Our great friend Matthew Fort, prolific writer on the food, drink and heart beat of Italy, has kindly allowed us to share some of this...

Sacla’ Goes Viral!

We’re one of what’s known as a Challenger Brand – quite a bit smaller than some of the big food companies that exist today. It...

Sacla’ sprinkles a little Italian spirit at a school lunch...

School lunches are seldom something to sing home about but for pupils at a Buckinghamshire primary school, a simple plate of Sacla’ Pesto pasta took...

A Pesto Poem: The Pestoration

We just had to share this rather clever poem in celebration of Pesto with you called 'The Pestoration'. We are very grateful to Paul Walton,...

That's Amore!

We Italians are in love with love, so much so that 14th February, Valentine’s Day, is the most popular day in the year to become...

Starting out with Sacla'

I’ve always loved food and wanted to work in the food industry, and initially thought I’d be a chef. Whilst doing my Hospitality & Catering...

Shrinking our waste

Doubling up With a bit of planning and some advance prep, batch cooking or cooking in bulk can save time, money and all sorts of...

Top 5 Pizza Toppings

What makes the perfect pizza? Although it seems simple, pizza can easily lose its way when overladen with toppings and not handled with enough love,...

In search of the new ciabatta

Ciabatta It all began with ciabatta. In the mid-1980s, quite suddenly, ciabatta became the bread of choice for all smart, gastronomically aware households. You couldn’t...

Pasta Riscaldata

“Scaldare” is the Italian verb for “to heat” and so pasta riscaldata is simply re-heated pasta. Cooked pasta, coated with some olive oil and then...

Risotto! Risotto! by Valentina Harris

Valentina Harris' book, Risotto! Risotto! delves deep into the world of risotto, with delicious recipes, tips and tricks for the perfect dishes. We love authentic...

Pioneering Pesto

When we first brought Pesto to the UK back in 1991, just a few people knew about the classic Pesto Alla Genovese recipe based on...

Extra Virgin Olive Oil

Extra Virgin Olive Oil is one of the cornerstones of the Mediterranean diet and this year’s olive harvest is fast approaching. This moment in time,...

Easter in Abruzzo, with Aldo Zilli

We love to celebrate Italian traditions, and Easter is a big one for us. We asked our friend Aldo Zilli to share with us what...

Amazing Artichokes

What We use Sardinian Globe Artichokes in Sacla’ Antipasti and we are coming towards the end of the season which runs between December and March....

The Mighty Panettone

Who would have thought it? Panettone outsells Christmas Puddings in shops, which underlines our on-going love affair with all things Italian. Panettone has been around...

Summer in the Islands by Matthew Fort

We've been reading Matthew Fort's book and reminiscing about Summer in the Italian Islands ourselves... Asinara, Favignana and Pianosa – might you be familiar with...