Product Description

This book shows you how to take the freshest of natural ingredients and flavours from the heart of Italy and make simple, fast, absolutely delicious vegetarian meals. Drawing on what Ursula cooks herself when relaxing at home, here are over 125 classic dishes for pastas, risottos, breads, summer and winter vegetables, salads, fruit and nuts. All the recipes are designed specifically to be healthy as well as tasty, so there are many nutritional tips and culinary information as well as suggested menu combinations for a healthy lifestyle. The book is illustrated with stunning location photography set in Ursula's home in the heart of Umbria. This is quick, fast Italian vegetarian home cooking with a twist. - Previous books include The Bread book, published by Dorling Kindersley, Real Fast Vegetarian, published by Metro has sold over 40,000 copies and has remained in the bestseller lists for over nine months - Easy-to-follow, straightforward recipes - Refreshingly original ideas for real, honest cooking - Evocatively illustrated with 125 full-colour photographs shot on location in Umbria

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #606303 in Books
• Published on: 1999-09-16
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 224 pages

About the Author
Ursula Ferrigno is fast becoming recognised as one of Britain's most innovative and talented vegetarian cooks. Ursula is half Italian and learned to cook as a child by watching her grandmother preparing traditional family dishes. A former principal turor for Cordon Vert, she runs cookery courses for Books for Cooks in London and in Tuscany and also teaches at Burtlers Wharf Chef School and Leiths.

Customer Reviews

Top Notch, Easy Cooking from a Great Cook!
I purchased this book while in Glasgow for work (I live in the US). I picked it up because it was so beautiful. Opened it because Ursula was one of my tutors at the Vegetarian Society (UK) Cookery School in the early 90's. Bought it because the recipes looked yummy, and easy. And I have made about six of them in the past two weeks! Each one is better than the rest, all are relatively simple. I had Grandma's lentil and potato soup for dinner tonight. Buy this book. You will love it! Thanks, Ursula!

Truly Brilliant Book!
This is the kind of book that gets you into the kitchen fast, you just can't wait to try the wonderful food. I was given the book as a present in the morning, and by lunchtime had tried one recipe, by dinnertime, had tried two! In fact we ate 'Italian' three days running! One of the nicest things about this book, is that most decently stocked kitchens would pretty much have most of the ingredients to hand, so you can literally pick up the book and decide what to cook - and so far it has all been delicious!

Excellent - easy to follow with tasty results
With simple recipes, most needing only a few basic ingredients, that deliver fantastic results this book is great. I can't cook and yet I have made two pasta dishes, almond biscuits and several cakes - and they have all been edible, even tasty. What a revelation!