My Calabria: Rustic Family Cooking from Italy's Undiscovered South - Hardcover

Rosetta Costantino With Janet Fletcher

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0393065162 ISBN 13: 9780393065169

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Co., 2010

Synopsis

Rosetta Costantino grew up in Calabria-the beautiful, mountainous region at the tip of Italy's "boot"-her father, a shepherd and wine maker, and her mother his tireless assistant. When her family emigrated to California, they recreated Calabria on their property, cooking with aubergines, tomatoes and peppers from their garden, fresh ricotta made from scratch and pasta fashioned by hand. A frugal people, Calabrians are master preservers, transforming figs into jam, canning tuna in oil and sun-drying peppers. The first cookbook of a little-known region, My Calabria celebrates the richness of the landscape and the allure of its cuisine. This is a cookbook for our time: a reminder of how ingenious and resourceful cooks can create a gorgeous local cuisine.

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Review:

Starred Review. Recipes such as sagne chine (Calabrese lasagne), vruocculi ca' savuzuizza (sausage and broccoli rabe), and pipi 'mpajanati (sweet pepper fritters) highlight this brilliant, comprehensive cookbook... Costantino certainly digs deep into the cuisine, highlighting authentic recipes along with an insightful narrative.... Costantino's cookbook offers home cooks a delightful journey along the toe of Italy's boot.

From the Publisher:

The author names are listed incorrectly. Could you please change them. The authors should be Rosetta Costantino with Janet Fletcher. Rosetta Costantino is missing and there is some other name there "Lindgren" which should be removed. We tried to do this through Bookdata and also through the Amazon advantage programme back in early July so could you please make sure these changes are made.

About this edition

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Co.
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0393065162
• ISBN 13: 9780393065169
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 416