To those of us who didn’t have Italian mothers making us risotto or arancini when we were growing up, Gass’s experience is ...

The cooking and preparation times given are for the arancini if using leftover risotto. If you can, allow another 10 minutes of chilling time for the shaped balls. The risotto recipe, which takes ...

This recipe for arancini—fried risotto balls—comes from Renato Poliafito, who got it from his Sicilian cousin Emanuele Sanfilippo. "Renato is obsessed with arancini," says Matt Lewis ...