Tuscan in the Kitchen: Recipes from the Heart of Italy - Hardcover

Luongo, Pino

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0747201366 ISBN 13: 9780747201366

Publisher: Headline Book Publishing, 1989

Synopsis

Reminiscences and anecdotes enhance a personal collection of recipes from the author's native Tuscany

About this title

About the Author

Pino Luongo was born in Florence, Italy. He is the founder of Il Cantinori restaurant in New York. He is also the owner of many highly acclaimed restaurants across the country, including Coco Pazzo, le Madri, Amarcord, Mad.61, Sapore di Mare in East Hampton, and Piccola Cucina.

From the Inside Flap

nt, delightfully unconventional cookbook is a warm, personal collection of recipes and reminiscences of the author's native Tuscany and a guide to a spontaneous way of cooking based on good taste and common sense rather than rigid rules.

In A Tuscan in the Kitchen, Pino Luongo, the creator of New York's successful Il Cantinori restaurant, presents 140 of his favorite recipes, from soups and antipasti to salads and desserts. The recipes include such tempting dishes as trout with balsamic vinegar, peasant-style risotto made with sausage and peas, roasted quail with tarragon, spaghetti with sea bass sauce, radicchio and orange salad, and baked peaches stuffed with walnuts and chocolate. Interspersed throughout in a spirited narrative are tales of his adventures as well as stories of family celebrations and the local traditions of the people who live in Tuscany's dries, hill towns, and fishing ports.

Mr. Luongo shows us how to cook the Tuscan way, using a small repertoire of ingr

Edition details

• Publisher: Headline Book Publishing
• Publication date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0747201366
• ISBN 13: 9780747201366
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 232