Classic Italian Cooking: Recipes for Mastering the Italian Kitchen - Hardcover

Harris, Valentina

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 184072725X ISBN 13: 9781840727258

Publisher: Spruce, 2008

Synopsis

Celebrity chef Valentina Harris makes traditional Italian cooking easy. Over 100 authentic Italian recipes have been simplified for the contemporary kitchen - piquant ragus with fresh pasta, nutty risottos, succulent meat and poultry dishes, aromatic fish and creamy desserts. Her instructions cover all the techniques necessary to master Italian cooking, from rolling fresh pasta, making perfect polenta and non-sticky gnocchi, notes on cleaning and boning fish and how to pick the choicest ingredients. An engaging raconteur, she enriches her recipes with fascinating food facts and anecdotes from her store of childhood memories of the family kitchen in Tuscany. Her recipes are beautifully decorated with charming watercolour illustrations.

About this title

Book Description:

Over 100 traditional Italian recipes for the contemporary kitchen. Charming line illustrations capture the spirit of Italy. Filled with cultural food facts and culinary anecdotes

About the Author:

Valentina Harris is a celebrity chef, author, broadcaster and lecturer. Her first television series Italian Regional Cookery for the BBC was shown in 1990 and 1998 to international acclaim and she has just completed a new series for television, Tasting History. Director of Villa Valentina Cookery Holidays, she has been teaching cookery for over 10 years.

About this edition

• Publisher: Spruce
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 184072725X
• ISBN 13: 9781840727258
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 336