- Paperback: 500 pages
- Publisher: VINTAGE (3 Aug 2006)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0099494167
- ISBN-13: 978-0099494164
- Product Dimensions: 14.9 x 3 x 21.1 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 215,307 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Synopsis
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.
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54 of 55 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
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.
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.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is a wonderful compilation of Anna Del Conte's "best" recipes (although all of them are best!) which is a must if you haven't managed to buy her earlier books, most of which are out of print. Fabulous recipes, most easy but not all and perfect to create a real Italian evening. If you haven't any other of hers and even if you have, do buy!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
A wonderful collection of the best Italian recipes. One of my "foodie" friends says that it would be his choice of "the book" for his desert island!
Most Recent Customer Reviews
I love this book......
This little book contains all the recipes you wish you'd thought of. If you're ever stuck for something that's fairly simple but out of teh ordinary, turn to Anna del Conte and in... Read more
Published 18 months ago by Kitaj
Simplicity of Italian cuisine show-cased
If you are looking for a book to teach you how Italian food from simple and few ingredients, makes fabulous food, this is the book for you. Read more
Published 20 months ago by GJH Williams
A fantastic book
I really love this book. I only bought it last week but I have already made three things out of it.
I have heard about Anna before, mostly through Nigella Lawson's... Read more
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Published 23 months ago by L. Stewart
Great for xmas present
This item was bought as a xmas present. I am sure my Neice will love it.
Published on 11 Oct 2009 by Ms. D. Robinson
No Photos
This is for serious cooks only. As a beginner, seduced by the reputation of Anna, I find it hard work to imagine what the dish is and wish I'd realised there were no photographs... Read more
Published on 22 July 2009 by YorkieS
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.
Published on 26 Jan 2007 by Bernie Gudgeon
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