La Cucina Italiana: Encyclopedia of Italian Cooking: The Encyclopedia of Italian Cooking - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0847839141 ISBN 13: 9780847839148

Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications, 2012

Synopsis

All the essential techniques, profusely illustrated with step-by-step photographs. How do you recognize a San Marzano tomato? How do you shape tortellini? How do you cut scallopine? Everyone loves Italian food, but the ingredients and techniques can be new territory and plain recipes can take you only so far. To make sense of it all, you need La Cucina Italiana. With more than 3,000 step-by-step photographs, this veritable encyclopedia guides you through all the essential building blocks of this cuisine. The images remove the guesswork from the more than 500 recipes included, allowing you to truly master the art of Italian cooking. Reflecting the philosophy of the cuisine itself, La Cucina Italiana puts ingredients first, explaining the different types and the best use of each. Then it supplies you with multiple methods for preparing those ingredients, ranging from simple to complex. Thus the book is suitable both for beginners and more advanced chefs who want to perfect their techniques. Sprinkled throughout are sidebars such as "The Right Tool," "Chef's Secrets," and "Advice and Tips." Perhaps the most user-friendly publication ever on Italian cooking, La Cucina Italiana is like a compact cooking school you can keep on your shelf.

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Review:

"The gorgeous accompanying photos are guaranteed to make your mouth water while they easily demonstrate how to do something or what it should look like. This book is like having a cooking school in your hands and very user friendly. La Cucina Italiana is a book with something for everyone" Snug Harbor Bay

"Perhaps the most user-friendly publication ever on Italian cooking...this veritable encyclopedia guides you through all the essential building blocks of this cuisine. The images remove the guess work from the more than 500 recipes included...it supplies you with multiple methods for preparing ingredients, ranging from simple to complex. Thus the book is suitable both for beginners and more advanced chefs who want to perfect their techniques." Fashion + Lifestyle

About the Author:

La Cucina Italiana is the most trusted source of information on Italian cooking worldwide. The monthly magazine has been published in Italy since 1929. Its English-language edition, whose editorial offices are in New York, has an audience of 350,000 per issue. The magazine publishes more than a thousand original recipes each year and thus has amassed an enormous archive. It is published in Czech, Dutch, and German editions as well.

About this edition

• Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0847839141
• ISBN 13: 9780847839148
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 470
• Editor: The Editors Of La Cucina Italiana