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This boxed set contains 75 classic and modern Italian pasta recipes and an audio CD with 15 classic Italian opera arias. Each aria is matched with a recipe, so that as you cook farfalle Mirella Freni sings from Madame Butterfly, and Luciano Pavarotti sings from La Traviata as you cook linguini.
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Pasta, pasta and more pasta is what fuels the Fat Lady whose singing brings down the operatic curtain. And pasta and opera are the subjects of Allegro al Dente, a handsomely-produced package comprising a CD of operatic extracts and a book of recipes, including a number designed to complement the individual items on the disc. Pasta being the point, the opera selection has no truck with Teutonic posturing or Gallic affectation. The opera is Italian--Rossini, Donizetti, Verdi, Puccini, the great barnstormers of the central Italian repertory in all their overheated, overexcited excess.
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This is an Australian production (many of the dishes derive from a Melbourne restaurant,the Café; di Stasio) and there is a certain level of facetiousness about the presentation, but there is nothing gimmicky about the recipes--or indeed the singing, which is of the highest order, including Joan Sutherland (home team), Cecilia Bartoli, Pavarotti and the Great Bellower, Mario del Monaco. Among the dozens of recipes a number stand out, though all are interesting: Capellini with lemon, olives and thyme; Orecchiette with lamb sauce; Pumpkin Ravioli (which include crushed Amaretti biscuits); Penne with Vodka. Those tied to the operatic tracks have apparently been selected for appropriateness. It is not always easy to see why. Che Gelida Manina (Your Tiny Hand is Frozen) from La Boheme with Pasta and Chickpea soup? But perhaps it's not so incongruous: since the consumptive dressmaker Mimi, to whom the poet Rodolfo addresses the aria, has just fainted from hunger, what she clearly needs is a good square meal. --Robin Davidson
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If youre looking at this book, its because you love food or music or both. Particularly, pasta, and opera - the two same loves of my husband Terry and I. We were sitting in our favourite Italian restaurant in Melbourne,Australia, Cafe Di Staso, listening to Beniamino Gigli and eating pasta con le sarde when we just went ballistic with the idea for this book. Ronnie di Stasio joined us, and his talented chef Valerio Nucci, and then designer Andrew Hoyne, and we were off. Its a most beautiful, stirring combination because everyone was so iinto it. The music on the CD is magnificent, often old recordings we found that brought tears to the eyes, and the recipes are some of our best and most favourite ever. Hope you enjoy.
If youre looking at this book, its because you love food or music or both. Particularly, pasta, and opera - the two same loves of my husband Terry and I. We were sitting in our favourite Italian restaurant in Melbourne,Australia, Cafe Di Staso, listening to Beniamino Gigli and eating pasta con le sarde when we just went ballistic with the idea for this book. Ronnie di Stasio joined us, and his talented chef Valerio Nucci, and then designer Andrew Hoyne, and we were off. Its a most beautiful, stirring combination because everyone was so iinto it. The music on the CD is magnificent, often old recordings we found that brought tears to the eyes, and the recipes are some of our best and most favourite ever. Hope you enjoy.
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- PublisherNew Holland Publishers
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 1864363657
- ISBN 13 9781864363654
- BindingAudio CD
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