What's the best way to prevent ricotta cheesecake from becoming watery? Is there a trick for coaxing more flavour from basil when making pesto? Does bread flour self-raising flour make better pizza dough? In an exhaustive effort to answer these questions and hundreds more, the editors of "Cook's Illustrated" magazine have conducted hundreds of ...
Now a celebrated restaurateur, Piero Selvaggio came with his family to New York from Italy as a teenager. In order to offer the public authentic Italian cooking, he traveled back to Italy to really learn to cook. Then he opened Valentino, Los Angeles's premier Italian restaurant. Here are the results of his journey--recipes for such traditional ...
Author Dominica Marchetti had wonderful memories of her childhood, when her Italian-born mother often cooked up homemade ravioli, lasagne, roasts, invited everyone over, and always made them feel at home with her warm and open personality. Domenica recreated those days for her own family and friends by creating over 100 simple, delicious, Italian ...
Featuring full-color photographs throughout, this work details 40 tempting recipes for highly flavorful, mouthwatering panini. Companion recipes for sides and sauces are also included.
With the growing numbers of enoteche (wine bars), tapas restaurants, and other establishments specializing in "small plates," antipasti's time has come. Like tapas, antipasti are small plates of savory appetizers or small first courses that tempt the appetite and prepare the palate for the meal to come. What could be better suited to a cocktail ...
Italy's Tuscany's cuisine is explored for a year, a chapter a month, with recipes for the numerous courses of an Italian meal as well as a chapter on ingredients and substitutions and one on the basic techniques and recipes known by all Tuscan home cooks.
125 quick-and-easy recipes for swift, sophisticated cooking Today's home cooks demand books that provide quick, convenient ways to serve tasty meals. That's what The Simpler The Better series is all about. This unique cookbook features 125 short, fabulously appealing Italian recipes that require only three to eight ingredients, three easy steps, ...
Food and culture are inexorably tied together. Culinaria reports on every aspect of a country's cuisine within the context of the people who created it. Profusely illustrated with spectacular photography and abundantly peppered with authentic recipes, these volumes are a treat for both the mind and the palate.
CLASSIC 1000 has done it again with a thousand fabulous flavors from the sunny kitchens of Italy. Italian food has brightened and enlivened our cuisine for generations with its ever-popular pizzas and risottos, salads and salami, pastas and sauces and delicious, piquant cheeses. Dip into this treasury of delightful dishes and enjoy years of ...
Nestled in a charming European-style bistro, on a small street in the world-famous ski resort of Sun Valley, Cristina's has been serving up seasonal and delicious fare for over 11 years. Cristina draws upon her memories and experiences of growing up in rural Tuscany, where her family recipes have been passed down through generations. This book ...
With innovative combinations and authentic recipes, "Cucina Rustica" uses fresh ingredients and simple cooking techniques of the campagna to recreate hearty Italian comfort food in the American kitchen. Illustrations.
Adriana Trigiani's Big Stone Gap novels, featuring the feisty Ave Maria Mulligan, have become popular favorites. Now Trigiani looks back on her own family history and the small Virginia town where she and her four sisters grew up. From the Trigiani and Bonicelli grandmothers--both slightly eccentric, both great cooks--to the four sisters and their ...
A colourful guide to the food, culture and history of New Yorks Arthur Avenue in the Bronx - a charming and vibrant community know as the real Little Italy of New York.
Roman Cookery unveils one of Europe's last great culinary secrets -- the food eaten by the ordinary people of ancient Rome. Based on olive oil, fish, herbs and vegetables, it was the origin of modern European cooking and, in particular, of what we now call the Mediterranean diet.
This sumptuous Italian cookbook for the health-conscious '90s is destined to become a classic. Casale has perfected and streamlined fabulous recipes for Italin cuisine, featuring all the rich, robust flavor--but without adding the fat and calories. Includes complete nutritional analysis for each recipe.
The author of "Savoring Italy" brings the style and taste of the country to every holiday table with this collection of 150 traditional family favorites. 8-page full-color insert.
In May 1999 four friends - two restauranteurs, a chef and a photographer - went on a three week holiday in southern Italy. This account of their journey contains travel information, personal stories, ideas for design and decor, and recipes which capture the flavours and colours of Italy.
Bring the flavors of Italy home in minutes with more than 350 authentic Italian recipes for appetizers, salads, main dishes, desserts, and more! Special chapters feature speed-cooking the Italian way with 25-Minute Main Dishes and favorite Italian Slow Cooker Recipes. Every recipe comes equipped with shortcut ideas and complete nutrition facts. ...
Actor Vincent Schiavelli returns to his family's origins in the tiny, closed-off Sicilian town of Polizzi Generosa, where he discovers both the culture of the place and the extraordinary food, including Pumpkin Caponata, Fried Ricotta Omelet, and Almond Love Bites.
Philadelphia enjoys one of the country's most dynamic food scenes, and Marc Vetri is its top culinary talent. Mario Batali called Vetri Ristorante "possibly the best Italian restaurant on the East Coast." A parade of prominent national food critics followed and all came to the same conclusion. Vetri's refined rustic-Italian cuisine is on brilliant ...
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