Recipes from Liguria

Liguria is a northwestern coastal region home to Cinque Terre, Genoa and Portofino. Liguria has a popular cuisine that includes many vegetarian and seafood recipes. This is the region that gave the world basil pesto genovese, walnut sauce, ravioli and linguine as well as less well-known pasta types like corzetti, panzotti and trofie. Among the Ligurian pasta recipes worth trying are pasta Portofino which combine pesto with tomatoes and fish soup with angel hair pasta.