Risotto! Risotto: 80 Recipes and All the Know-How You Need to Make Italy's Famous Rice Dish

by Valentina Harris, Martin Brigdale

Prized for its texture, flavour and versatility, risotto has been part of the Italian diet since the Arabs introduced rice into Sicily in the 8th century. This book shows how to prepare, cook and serve the dish using a wide range of ingredients.

Genres: Cooking, Italy

160 pages, Hardcover

First published May 21, 1998

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.

Reviews

[A · Rating 5 out of 5]

This author comes highly recommended on Twitter, Instagram, etc. Personally, a lovely, easy-to-read book, with amazing ingenuity in the recipes provided.

I loved the historical write-up, I came for that, and left with the recipes.