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Amaretto, Apple Cake and Artichokes: The Best of Anna Del Conte
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Product Description
In this book, Anna Del Conte has collected together the best of her delicious recipes along with tips, anecdotes and reminiscences about her life in Italy and London. Packed with inspiring information from the best way to make a tomato sauce and a tiramisu to more unusual dishes such as nettle risotto and chestnut mousse, each chapter is devoted to a different ingredient. As well as explaining the basics and introducing more surprising recipes, Anna includes special additional chapters describing traditional regional and historical menus. So whether you want to eat tagliatelle with ham and peas or rabbit with rosemary and tomato, a Roman Late Supper or a Renaissance Dinner, you will find what you need here.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #98339 in Books
- Published on: 2006-08-03
- Original language: English
- Binding: Paperback
- 512 pages
Editorial Reviews
Caroline Jowett, Daily Express
‘a delight to have by the cooker or by the bed…a must-have for any
lover of Italian food’
The Week
Best Food Books of the Year
Good Book Guide
Wonderful recipe book
Customer Reviews
Delicious cake
I only eat the results. However, my evidence to date indicates that - if your wife cooks, and you love food - this book is a worthwhile investment.
The Queen of Italian cooking
I have a couple of Anna del Conte's books already, including "The Gastronomy of Italy" which is a truly fantastic book. I was slightly worried that this might be a rehash of her other work, but not at all! I haven't come across a duplicated recipe yet.
The book is divided into chapters focussed on key foods including: pasta; rice; bread; pulses; fish; molluscs; meat and poultry; prosciutto, salame and all that; vegetables; wild mushrooms and truffles; cheeses; fruit; nuts etc. which I've found very useful in practice, rather than the more usual antipasti, primi, secondi etc.
She writes very evocatively about food, always relating a certain preparation to a person or place, as is so often the case in Italy.
Her instructions are always clear and reliable - I've never made anything which turned out to be less than delicious, even first time out.
Anna del Conte is highly regarded in Italy as a writer on Italian food, and has won many awards there for her work (no Jamie Oliver interloper she!). This book is a really useful investment for anyone interested in Italian food, and how to cook simply and well.
