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'Jacob Kenedy is almost a prodigy' Evening Standard, Fay Maschler 'Bocca di Lupo might just be Britain's best Italian' Terry Durack, Independent 'The dishes are rustic, regional, absolutely untranslated, utterly authentic, unbelievably winning' Giles Coren, The Times
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Italy is a land of appetite, where life is embraced with passion, and food prepared with generosity and joy. But the cuisine is hard to define, as each region has its own rich culinary traditions - and so deep is the belief of locals that their food is the best, that often Italy's finest dishes are unknown from one place to the next. Jacob Kenedy, a self-avowed culinary magpie, travelled the length and breadth of the country over the course of a year, gathering up his favourite recipes - many of them obscure, some bizarre, all utterly delicious. Like the menu at Bocca di Lupo, Jacob's award-winning London restaurant, this book is a thrilling, exotic journey through the true flavours of Italy: the hearty risotti of the north, the exquisite shellfish of the Veneto, the earthy sausages of Bologna, the fried street food of Rome, the baroque desserts of Naples and the Arab-influenced sweets of Sicily. The recipes in Bocca are a revelation, a portal to a side of Italy that is gritty, glamorous, seedy and mysterious. Be warned, this is a cookbook with teeth.
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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This is not the first cookbook with authentic Italian recipes, nor is it the most comprehensive. But it is the first to fully convey the joy to be had from the most typical of dishes, from all over Italy, in their most honest form. Each dish is honoured with a paragraph about what exciting memories and sensations it evokes in the author, then instructions for the recipe that are always clear and concise, never pedantic (which would be un-Italian), and a full-page photograph. And its greatest strength is that the recipes are so well chosen. Jacob Kenedy has spent a great deal of time, attentively, in Italy, and perhaps his not being Italian helped to him to be a better judge of what is most special over all; he can select recipes from anywhere in Italy without the interference of the local pride and prejudice that almost defines a true Italian. He makes this point in his book. But I think it has helped him in another way too: he has no anxiety about the humble origins of much Italian food (much of the best Italian food), as so many Italian-born chefs do. In fact his mission has been to glorify the most robust and basic aspects of Italian cookery, convinced that they are what make it specially satisfying and evocative. He is right, of course, which accounts for the success of his Bocca di Lupo restaurant. And this is also what should make this book such a success - it is a restaurant cookbook and yet the recipes will work at home, because they derive only from how Italians actually eat at home (if they are lucky).
Kenedy happens to have put affectionate emphasis on the cooking of Lazio, which is perhaps the simplest, and most maligned of Italian regional cuisines - maligned especially by trendy Romans - and the most adaptable to home kitchens abroad. It is great to see because this is food that has never had much exposure, and these days it is rare enough to find even in Rome; now foreigners will discover the joys of guanciale, fave, and pecorino, just as Romans have turned their noses up at them.
Really, it has become hard even in Italy for a foreigner to eat like this; Italian food is so often adulterated by what is expected of foreign tastes, and by the pointless anxiety of Italian chefs to seem modern, that unless you are invited into a local home, or you are lucky enough to stumble into a trattoria so dingy that it repels the average tourist, you are unlikely to see plates like those in Bocca. That is the last benefit of Bocca: it will show you what to look for in Italian food. (Sometimes Kenedy also directs you to where to find it, in different Italian cities.)
Lastly, mention should be made of the dessert section which, though necessarily more complicated, is excellent, and obviously where a great deal of Kenedy's enthusiasm has been directed.
If you want to know what it is like to eat well in Italy, and how you can eat like that wherever you may be, you should get this book.
Kenedy happens to have put affectionate emphasis on the cooking of Lazio, which is perhaps the simplest, and most maligned of Italian regional cuisines - maligned especially by trendy Romans - and the most adaptable to home kitchens abroad. It is great to see because this is food that has never had much exposure, and these days it is rare enough to find even in Rome; now foreigners will discover the joys of guanciale, fave, and pecorino, just as Romans have turned their noses up at them.
Really, it has become hard even in Italy for a foreigner to eat like this; Italian food is so often adulterated by what is expected of foreign tastes, and by the pointless anxiety of Italian chefs to seem modern, that unless you are invited into a local home, or you are lucky enough to stumble into a trattoria so dingy that it repels the average tourist, you are unlikely to see plates like those in Bocca. That is the last benefit of Bocca: it will show you what to look for in Italian food. (Sometimes Kenedy also directs you to where to find it, in different Italian cities.)
Lastly, mention should be made of the dessert section which, though necessarily more complicated, is excellent, and obviously where a great deal of Kenedy's enthusiasm has been directed.
If you want to know what it is like to eat well in Italy, and how you can eat like that wherever you may be, you should get this book.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
For foodies who must have the next "it" chef's cookbook, and for lovers of great Italian cuisine, Bocca will be essential reading and very well laid out recipes with stunning photographs.
Bocca di Lupo is an Italian trattoria with an international reputation. Tables are booked months in advance by diners from around the world who are seeking chef Jacob Kenedy's unique take on Italian cuisine.
In Bocca, Kenedy brings his own brand of Italian regional cooking out of the restaurant and into the home. Kenedy's cooking is simple and delicious, covering the full range of regional specialties: Tuscan porcini soup, Venetian tagliatelle with pigeon ragù, Lazian asparagus and prawn frittata, Sicilian fried mullet, and Neapolitan coffee with zabaione. Organized into food groups (pasta, soups, stews, roasts, etc.), with over 200 easy to follow recipes.
Great for the people who love healthy cooking.
Bocca di Lupo is an Italian trattoria with an international reputation. Tables are booked months in advance by diners from around the world who are seeking chef Jacob Kenedy's unique take on Italian cuisine.
In Bocca, Kenedy brings his own brand of Italian regional cooking out of the restaurant and into the home. Kenedy's cooking is simple and delicious, covering the full range of regional specialties: Tuscan porcini soup, Venetian tagliatelle with pigeon ragù, Lazian asparagus and prawn frittata, Sicilian fried mullet, and Neapolitan coffee with zabaione. Organized into food groups (pasta, soups, stews, roasts, etc.), with over 200 easy to follow recipes.
Great for the people who love healthy cooking.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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I just love this book. Having bought it due to the fact that it was so cheap secondhand, I'm amazed that anybody would consider selling it once they owned it. There are loads of Italian cookbooks out there but what I like especially about this one is that it entices you with a few familiar dishes (in particular in the pasta section) and some that require minimum preparation, but also gives you a few challenges in terms of technique (sausage making!) and ingredients. Plus, it is so well written and enthusiastic about food that even tripe sounds quite tempting to a tripophobic. If you are interested in learning more about cooking the more unusual bits of animals, then this is a good place to look. It also have a really nice section on frozen desserts. I have a feeling this is going to be one of my most used cookbooks.
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So good I bought it twice
A fantastic book. I decided I needed one in the UK and one in the house I rent in Italy. Well worth buying as it gives an unusual take on Italian cooking together with great... Read more
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This was a present for my son who is a Master Chef. It was his special request and has said he found it very helpful to him.
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What a beautiful book. The restaurant (If you can get in) is a wonderful place - an interesting concept, where they serve lots of regional dishes (That are in season) in small or... Read more
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I love this book. I was so enraptured by it that I read it as I was walking home, calamitously. I have many Italian cookbooks but this for me now leads the charge. Read more
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