Adventures of an Italian Food Lover With Recipes from 254 of My Very Best Friends
May 30, 2009 by Italian Recipes · Leave a Comment
Adventures of an Italian Food Lover With Recipes from 254 of My Very Best Friends
It’s one thing to enjoy a masterfully prepared Italian meal, but something else entirely to experience it in a small trattoria nestled in the canyons near Bologna, and author Willinger (Eating in Italy) knows the difference; conveying the sensory splendor of her 30 years living, shopping and eating in Italy, Willinger makes a warm personal guide to her favorite shops, markets and vineyards, and the often colorful characters who operate them (aided throughout by Suzanne Heller’s clever watercolors). Willinger introduces grocers like Salvatore de Gennaro and Anna Maria Cuomo, who stock artisan cheeses and salumi homemade by Salvatore’s dad; and winemakers like Silvia Imparato, owner of Montevetrano, “one of the most exciting wineries in southern Italy.” Each entry is followed by a recipe: Tuscan bakers Francesco and Elisabeth Pandolfini offer Brutto-Buoni, a traditional cookie laden with almonds and pine nuts, while Dario Cecchini, Italy’s most famous butcher (featured in Bill Buford’s Heat), gives tips on choosing and preparing steaks. Other standouts include artisan grappa, Amedei chocolateir in Tuscany and custom perfumier Lorenzo Villoresi in Florence. Culinarians will delight in her stories and recipes, though the book functions better as a guidebook for travelers; included are web sites, hours of operation and contact information that make arranging a personal visit easy.
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Santa Barbara Ceramic Design Tuscan Vineyard Olive Oil Bottle Dipping Set with Recipes
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Santa Barbara Ceramic Design Tuscan Vineyard Olive Oil Bottle Dipping Set with Recipes
This Tuscan Vineyard Olive Oil Bottle is handy for keeping your favorite olive oil close at hand while cooking and is perfect for use at the dinner table. The stainless steel spout makes pouring from these olive oil bottles smooth, accurate and clean. The Dipping Bowl, based on the Tuscan tradition of dipping crusty bread in a small bowl of seasoned olive oil, is made of fine porcelain and is both dishwasher and microwave safe. The Little Book of Dipping Recipes features 10 gourmet olive oil dipping recipes along with tips for creating savory dips. Each unique olive oil dipping set includes a beautifully decorated 8oz. Italian style glass Olive Oil Bottle, porcelain Dipping Bowl and a Dipping Recipe Booklet featuring ten delectable olive oil dipping recipes. May we also suggest our plastic pouring spout so the olive oil bottle can easily be used for hand or dish soap.
Lidias Italy BRACIOLE A CINNAMON ROLL
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Lidias Italy BRACIOLE A CINNAMON ROLL
Venice, the Veneto, spices! It was the center of the spice trade as Lidia loves to tell, and in this episode Lidia visits the region and then comes back to the kitchen where she doesn’t hold back at all–making mouth watering beef cutlets garnished with aromatic cinnamon and cloves.
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Culinary delights sprout on the Web (Seattle Times)
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Italian Easy Recipes from the London River Cafe
May 29, 2009 by Italian Recipes · Leave a Comment
Italian Easy Recipes from the London River Cafe
“Easy food doesn’t have to mean unsophisticated food.”
Rose Gray and Ruth Rogers, founders of London’s renowned River Cafe, are famous for their innovative approach to traditional Italian fare. In Italian Easy, their fifth cookbook, they reinvent the Italian kitchen for today’s busy home cook, refuting the notion that elegant food requires hours of preparation. These are visually spectacular, remarkably simple recipes for those who love good food but have little time to prepare it.
Displaying the imagination and panache that are Rose and Ruth’s hallmarks, the nearly 200 recipes in Italian Easy are streamlined for efficiency in the kitchen without compromising either quality or taste. Relying on a well-stocked pantry, just a handful of fresh, seasonal ingredients, and even fewer steps, these sublime recipes summon both familiar and surprising Italian flavors. Bruschetta with tender asparagus and shaved Parmesan, tagliatelle with ripe figs and spicy chiles, slow-roasted chicken with fresh nutmeg and prosciutto, and the restaurant’s popular Chocolate Nemesis cake are all as enticing as they are effortless.
This is not Italian food that’s impossible to pronounce or prepare. At once straightforward and sexy, this is Italian Easy—the cookbook that makes it possible for busy people to eat well every night of the week.
User Ratings and Reviews
5 Stars My go-to book for Italian
Every page of this book inspires me to cook and has for several years now. The recipes are delightfully simple, both in terms of number of ingredients and in technique. There are no blurbs about travels and parties. The food alone entices. I’ve never had a bad meal using this book.
5 Stars Terrific Italian cookbook
Great italian recipes. Ingredients wonderfully spelled out,easy directions and beautiful pictures.Presented in such a way that you will want to cook Italian every night!!
4 Stars Review - Italian Easy: London River Cafe
This cookbook is set up in a very unique which sets it apart from others in this genre. The dishes are rustic yet sophisticated; definitely a nice fixture for a beginner but also for a seasoned cook looking for some inspiration.
5 Stars best italian cookbook
I cannot believe that only two people have reviewed this book! It is by far one of the best books I own, and I have quite a collection. It is better than anything Giada DeLaurentis has done, simpler than Mario Batali, and as much as I love Jamie Oliver, is better than his new Italian cookbook as well. The book is simply beautiful. The layout and the photography make everything look irresistible. Even more importantly, everything I have made from here has been exceptionally good. The bruschetta ideas are inspiring. Almost everything in here is so simple, you wonder, why didn’t I think of that? And yet the simplicity is deceiving as the outcome is beyond delicious. The pea and scallion pasta with prosciutto is insane. The sea bass with potatoes divine. The veggie dishes are so good I recommend this book to vegetarians despite the fact that it is not a veggie cookbook. If you buy one Italian cookbook, this is the one….
5 Stars Really Easy
You get the usual top quality presentations. Preparation is really easy! Triggers your own ideas.
