Columbus Day Special: Chicken Scarpariello Recipe

Memorie di Angelina is a blog about the home cooking of continental Italy. But as our regular readers will know, every Columbus Day we feature an Italian-American favorite. This year our feature is the mysteriously named Chicken Scarpariello, or “Shoemaker’s Chicken”. While there is a traditional Neapolitan dish that goes by the same name, that dish is an utterly different quickly-made pasta with tomato sauce. The Italian-American Scarpariello is made with chicken, braised in wine and broth along with bell peppers, onions, garlic and—in a very Italian-American touch–oregano and pickled cherry Whatever the origins of Chicken Scarpariello, it’s plenty tasty. Although there is no actual cream in it, as the sauce simmers it turns…