Southern Italian Cooking

by Valentina Harris

Exploring the cuisine of southern Italy, this book gives over 200 recipes, many of which are previously unpublished. It covers dishes from the eight regions that form the south of Italy: Lazio, the Abruzzi, Molise, Puglia, Campania, Basilicata, Calabria and Sicily. The book starts in Rome and Naples, progressing down through the remote communities in the "instep" of the country to Sicily, discovering on the way the centuries-old cuisines of shepherds, fishermen and nobility. The cuisines of southern Italy are reputed to be amongst the healthiest in the world. Valentina Harris has also written "Perfect Pasta", "Italian Regional Cooking", "Valentina's Italian Family Feast" and "Complete Italian Cookery Course".

Genres: Reference

176 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1993

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.