Product Description

"Grub Street" is delighted to be reissuing what is universally acknowledged to be one of the most influential Italian cookbooks in English ever published. This is the ultimate book for people wanting to discover genuine Italian cooking. There are no glossy photos, but very passionate written text that leaves you almost tasting the food and many excellent diagrams to demonstrate various techniques. This book is totally comprehensive giving directions for making dishes the traditional, Italian way - and includes an introductory section on cooking fundamentals for ingredients and tools, recipes for Antipasti, Sauces, Soups, Pasta, Risotto, Gnocchi, Polenta, Frittata, Fish and Shellfish, Chicken, Rabbit, Veal, Beef, Lamb, Pork, Vegetables, Salads, and Desserts. Most recipes are complemented with short passages on its origins and her style of writing is pleasant and quirky. This book is suitable for beginners and experts. Each recipe is amazingly simple and the lists of ingredients surprisingly short. The author demonstrates over and over again that good cooking is all about simplicity, patience and, most of all, about using fresh, seasonal, ingredients. Her Bolognese sauce has no competition and is perfection itself.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #454562 in Books
• Published on: 2009-10-31
• Binding: Hardcover
• 432 pages

Review
'Her instructions for making, cooking and serving pasta - are the best I have come across.' The Times ' - the last word on Italian cooking.' Vogue

About the Author
The recipient of two Lifetime Achievement Awards and a knighthood from her own country, Marcella Hazan is the author of six classic cookbooks published over the past thirty-five years. She lives in Longboat Key, Florida, with her husband, Victor, her lifelong collaborator and writing partner, himself an authority on Italian food and wine.

Customer Reviews

Real, inexpensive Italian cooking made EASY
Remember the taste of that Italian gnocci in Venice? Or the beef with olives in Verona? This book makes it possible for YOU to produce brilliant Italian cooking. The recipes are wide ranging, but many are very simple. For example pasta with sage sauce can be made in minutes. Whenever I have cooked from this book visitiors have been so impressed. Certain recipes are now firmly embedded in my standard cuisine. If you thought Italian cooking as just pizzas and pasta, well think again. This book is wonderful, exciting, but so easy to follow. Instructions are given for adapting basic recipes. I can smell the home made Pesto NOW. Bring the real taste of Italy to your kitchen, easily. I tried my version out on Pietro Lorefico, a missionaey from Sicily. " It is very good, just like we make. But more bay leaves, I think." he smiled surprised to find such food in Northern England.

REAL Italian
The woman is genius. This is the definitive tome for cooking authentic Northern Italian food.
The pasta sauces in particular are spot on. Even a limited cook like me can conjure up magic under Marcell's guidance. Not really for the weight-watcher, but who cares.....