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Antonio Carluccio presents over 200 recipes in this illustrated text. Reflecting his passion for fresh vegetables as well as his broad culinary knowledge, each dish encompasses the Carluccio style: a skilful simplicity that is matched by loving care. The text also details everything you need to know about over 40 Italian vegetables, from Aglio to Zucchino. Antonio Carluccio brings the very best of both traditional and contemporary Italian vegetable cooking: from classics such as Bagna Cauda and Caponata, to Tort di Carote and Piselli al Prosciutto, you will find here a cornucopia of recipes that exude the warmth and richness of the Italian countryside.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #696669 in Books
• Published on: 2002-03-04
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 320 pages

Amazon.co.uk Review
Antonio Carluccio is, of course, an Italian cook, and so the subjects in Antonio Carluccio's Vegetables are approached from a properly Italian point of view. Names, recipes and a respect for their seasonal qualities are all Italian: so too the frugal ability to conjure great depths of flavour from the careful treatment of simple raw materials. Some of the vegetables are very Italian indeed, and you would be lucky to find them outside their native country--the true Radicchio di Treviso, for example, or the strange but delicious, chive-like Barba di Frate--but for most the difficulty will simply lie in matching Carluccio's stipulations of the utmost freshness and quality (organic, if possible).

He works his way through the vegetables from Aglio (garlic: where better to start?) to Zucchino (courgette), setting them in the context of Italian life and culture, often with charming reminiscences from his childhood, explaining their characteristics and how to choose them well. The recipes are a mixture of traditional dishes from all over Italy with inventions or contemporary versions of his own. Traditional might mean familiar, like a particularly good version of Pasta and Bean Soup, but there are many old dishes that will be unfamiliar and enticing--the delicious Culurgiones al Sugo, a papoose-shaped pasta stuffed with potato, cheese and mint is a good example. Carluccio's own offerings, appropriately for a modern restaurateur, are often simple and light.

Italian vegetable cooking is perhaps the most creative and resourceful in Europe, as this stylish and inspiring book makes abundantly clear. Photographs that for once illuminate the food and recipes rather than functioning as mood-enhancers, and that includes delightful shots of Carluccio pottering round his vegetable garden, adorn it. --Robin Davidson

Nine to Five
'Antonio Carluccio has scored yet another hit with this classic guide to vegetables'

Ideal Home
'Antonio lovingly describes each vegetable...An invaluable reference for all home cooks'

Customer Reviews

Bravo Antonio!
I have lived in Italy for many years, and love Italian cooking - I love it because it exalts simplicity, it takes a few basic ingredients and produces pure uncluttered taste sensations. It puts vegetables and beans in the place they should be on a table - at the head. Antonio's recipes are absolutely genuine and simple, and reflect all of this. These dishes are exactly what you find in Italian homes - things like raw artichoke salad, turnip shoots with pasta, pumpkin risotto, pizzoccheri, I could go on and on. The layout of the book is also simple and uncluttered, with great photography and interesting and valid introduction sections to each vegetable. This book will never go out of date and if you only have one book on Italian cooking, you should make it this one. I couldn't recommend it more.

Inspiring and totally practical approach to vegetables
This book tackles the cooking of vegetables in a basic and simple to follow way without any of the faddish or moralising views of many modern vegetarian books. I have tried several receipies all of which were delicious and successful. It is a very useful addition to anyone wishing a little inspiration with vegetable cooking

Inspiring and totally practical approach to vegetables
This book tackles the cooking of vegetables in a basic and simple to follow way without any of the faddish or moralising views of many modern vegetarian books. I have tried several receipies all of which were delicious and successful. It is a very useful addition to anyone wishing a little inspiration with vegetable cooking