A Taste of Southern Italy : Delicious Recipes and a Dash of Culture
Editorial Reviews
Review
“Cooks whose culinary adventures have heretofore stopped at Tuscany will discover a whole new world of Italian food.”
–Publishers Weekly
“Southern Italian food has a range of style and savor that sweeps from the piquant to the delicate, embracing restraint and sensitivity as often as it demonstrates aggressiveness. It is created by cooks with the courage to let a food be, to let it taste like its own good self. Southerners revere the purity of flavors and textures of a food. They are content to tear a few leaves of a wild mint over a roasted fish, to grill fat prawns in lemon leaves, to roast suckling lamb in a terracotta pot with a great heft of sweet butter. It is a cuisine that aspires to dignity even in the midst of insufficiency.”
–from the Introduction
Book Description
“It has always been true for me that to know a place, I must first know how it eats and drinks. Everything unravels at the table.”
–Marlena de Blasi
Marlena de Blasi’s lifelong affair with cooking began at age nine on a beach along the coast of southern Italy, where she met an elderly woman roasting potatoes coated with olive oil, rosemary, and sea salt over an open fire.
Now, in A Taste of Southern Italy, de Blasi brings to life the spirit as well as the cuisine of this bountiful region. With de Blasi we travel down remote country goat paths in tiny island villages and along sun-washed avenues of great cities in search of some of the most treasured recipes in the world. This is as much a storybook as it is a cookbook: a gathering of small rhapsodies, impressions, and romantic notions from a land where such delights are plentiful. In our journey through the kitchens of southern Italy we find tantalizing recipes for a host of mouthwatering dishes, including
Gnocchi di Castagne con Porcini Trifolati
Insalata di Pesce Dove il Mare Non C’é
Pane di Altamura
Frittelle di Ricotta e Rhum alla Lucana
Peperoni Arrostiti Ripieni
La Vera Pizza
Pomodori alla Brace
Pesce Spada sulla Brace alla Pantesca
Ricotta Forte
Pasta alla Pecoraio
La Torta Antica Ericina
Un Gelato Barocco
With these authentic recipes at your fingertips, you can master the luscious tastes and rustic ambiance of southern Italy. These dishes are sure to become a tradition in your home, and will fill it with tantalizing aromas and love.
A Taste of Southern Italy : Delicious Recipes and a Dash of Culture
A Taste of Southern Italy: Delicious Recipes and a Dash of Culture,Marlena De Blasi,Ballantine Books,0345487230,Cookery, Italian,Cooking,Cooking / Wine,Italian Cookery,Regional & Ethnic - Italian,Southern style,Cooking / General
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