From the Tables of Tuscan Women: Recipes and Traditions
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One of the most profound differences between American and European movies is the prominence of cooking and eating in the European films. The occasional American character might stop at a fast food joint for a burger (especially if that chain had paid the film studio a handsome fee for visibility on the silver screen), but in European films, there is almost always at least one scene of characters preparing, relishing, or discussing food that they or a friend had created. Although From the Tables of Tuscan Women may seem at first glance to be a wonderful cookbook filled with exquisite recipes from the Tuscany, Anne Bianchi's newest book is also a meditation about the intimate interdependence of food and life. Perhaps from a purely materialistic perspective, "we are what we eat" but Bianchi reminds us that "we are how we cook--and how we eat."
Excerpted from the book
"As we sit down to lunch, the Signora gives me a lesson in cooking, Tuscan style...The secret, she tells me, is to imagine yourself as an artist, to see the food before you as one of your many elegant creations. She compares the process to that of creating a beautiful painting. To start, you need some knowledge of the chemical composition of each paint on your palette, but, if that is the sum total of your learning, you will never create a work of art. What you need, she maintains, is to free yourself from academic knowledge, to embody the information in such a way that it becomes part of your skin, part of your soul, part of the very lining of your veins. You need a sense of pride, hubris, the arrogance to assume control of your ingredients, to reduce them to subservience, to rob them of their individuality. Conceit makes good cooks, she declares, not humility."
From the Tables of Tuscan Women: Recipes and Traditions
From the Tables of Tuscan Women: Recipes and Traditions,Anne Bianchi,Douglas Hatschek,Ecco Press,0880014253,Cookery, Italian,Cooking,Cooking / Wine,General,Regional & Ethnic - Italian,Social life and customs,Tuscan style,Tuscany (Italy),Food & Drink / Cookery
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