Classic Italian Cooking: Recipes for Mastering the Italian Kitchen

by Valentina Harris

Valentina Harris has carefully selected 100 recipes that are the core recipes from which all other recipes in Italian cooking derive. Her skilled advice covers all the techniques necessary to handle any dish, for instance Polenta al Ragu and Pollo alla Toscana. Harris is very conscious that classical Italian cuisine can be complicated and lengthy on method and that most home cooks do not have endless hours to prepare family meals, nor are they willing to give over an entire day to cook for a dinner party. She has analysed the methods carefully and wherever possible has simplified the process without losing the most important feature of Italian cooking"flavor".Harris has demystified the process with her commonsense approach. And for this reason Classic Italian Cooking is an exciting and welcome addition to any cook's library. Harris spends a lot of her time in Italy, and has thus brought lively reminiscences of meals cooked and eaten to this comprehensive book.

Genres: Cooking, Cookbooks

304 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2005

About the author

Valentina Harris is an author, chef and proprietor of Cucina Valentina Ltd. Valentina writes a monthly food column for Platinum magazine and has more than 45 books on Italian food to her name. She has worked alongside various cookery schools, including Divertimenti, Caldesi in London, The School of Artisan Food in Welbeck and The Bertinet Kitchen in Bath. Valentina has made appearances on television shows such as The Supersizers Eat, Cooking the Books, Saturday Kitchen and Celebrity Eggheads.

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