Classic Italian Cooking: Recipes for Mastering the Italian Kitchen

Classic Italian Cooking: Recipes for Mastering the Italian Kitchen

by ValentinaHarris (Author)

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 deserts. Her instructions cover all the techniques necessary to master Italian cooking, from rolling fresh pasta, 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.

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 336
Publisher: Spruce
Published: 30 Jan 2008

ISBN 10: 184072725X
ISBN 13: 9781840727258
Book Overview: 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

Author Bio
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.