Italian Cooking

A Passion for Pasta

In A Passion for Pasta, everyone can take a delicious trip down Italy, from top to toe, led by ‘pasta queen’ Carmela Sereno – your guide to making speciality pasta dishes from each Italian region. With stunning photographs throughout, these recipes include: · Mandilli di Seta, handkerchief pasta with creamy …

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Two Kitchens: Family Recipes from Sicily and Rome

Rachel’s first book, Five Quarters: Recipes and Notes from a Kitchen in Rome, won the Andre Simon and Guild of Food Writers’ First Book Award in 2015 and she has a weekly column in Guardian Cook. For ten years Rachel Roddy immersed herself in the culture of Roman cooking, but it was the flavours of the south that …

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Tuscany in the Kitchen: 30 Recipes That Are Too Good to Miss!

•A look at Tuscan traditions and ingredients in the kitchen, with recipes from real people (instead of chefs), carrying on their culinary heritage day by day•Includes 30 recipesTuscany is home to Florence, the Renaissance, stunning landscapes, great wines – and food. Simple, slow cooked, made with the finest ingredients, locally sourced. Maite and Marie collect 30 traditional recipes, …

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Sicily in the Kitchen: 30 Recipes That Are Too Good to Miss!

•A look at Sicilian traditions and ingredients in the kitchen, with recipes from real people (instead of chefs), carrying on their culinary heritage day by day•Includes 30 recipesSicilian cuisine is known as curtigghiu – of the courtyard – with recipes passed from door to door and from generation to generation by word of mouth. Influenced by the endless …

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Eating & Drinking in Italy (Open Road Travel Guides)

The most complete Italian-language menu translator available, plus great restaurant picks for Italy’s major cities and towns!  It isn’t the chicken you thought you ordered. It’s a plate of cold brains. Nor is it the delectable slices of beef braised in red wine; those are veal kidneys. These are the pitfalls of ordering off a menu in …

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Acquacotta: Recipes and Stories from Tuscany’s Secret Silver Coast

Uncover the recipes and stories from a largely unheralded region of Tuscany, the Silver Coast; a place of wild natural beauty, idyllic coastline, crumbling hilltop villages, and a rustic, wholesome cuisine.Acquacotta is a celebration of the traditional cuisine of a lesser known part of Tuscany, the Silver Coast, which forms part of the territory of Maremma. Acquacotta, literally …

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Nina Capri

Over one hundred delicious recipes from the Amalfi Coast.Nina dazzled us with her homage to the food of St Tropez, and now she has set her sights on the spectacular coastline of Capri. After university, Nina joined the team at L’Anima, London as a commis chef and fell in love …

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Dolce Famiglia

A tavola non si invecchia.At the table (with good friends and family) you do not grow old. In his first two bestselling cookbooks, David Rocco’s Dolce Vita and Made in Italy, celebrity chef and author David Rocco gave readers delicious traditional Italian recipes that any home cook can master. His inspiration, as always: the fresh, simple cooking of …

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Greco Family Cookbook: Eating well is living happy!

The Greco Family Cookbook is a collection of traditional Italian recipes (along with some not-so-traditional dishes) that this Italian-American family loves. This book began as a project between father and daughter to document and record the various dishes that they ate regularly – because no recipe in this family had ever been written down! The recipes …

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