Tuscany: The Beautiful Cookbook

by Lorenza de'Medici, Michael Freeman (Photographer), Peter Johnson (Photographer)

Each title in this award-winning series offers an exquisite region-by-region taste tour filled with culinary specialties and surprises. Included in each large-format volume are gorgeous food and landscape photographs.

Genres: Cookbooks, Cooking, Reference, Food, Italian Literature, Italy, Travel

256 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1992

About the author

Lorenza de Medici has published more than 30 cookbooks. She has appeared in a 13-part series on Italian cooking for public television and conducts a cooking school at Badia a Coltibuono, an 11th-century estate and winery near the Chianti region of Tuscany. She divides her time between Milan and Badia a Coltibuono.

Reviews

[Elena Traduzioni Oceano Mare · Rating 3 out of 5]

I don't know how many times I made the Torta di Mele from the recipe in the book. It's so delicious!

[Christine · Rating 5 out of 5]

There are just some cookbooks that you can read before bedtime, and this is one of them. Ok, so it's a little awkward to hold. Set the book down on the counter and lean over it. Pore over those beautiful pictures, and learn about the way things are done in a place where microwaves don't rule the world.

This book makes no compromises because it's not trying to get you to cook a certain way. It's trying to tell you what traditional foods are like. It's old-school. It's gorgeous. And the recipes are good too, if you can source the ingredients. I have never been so inspired reading a cookbook as I was reading Tuscany: The Beautiful Cookbook.

[Christine · Rating 5 out of 5]

Please can I go to Tuscany and cook for my fabulous friends from this book?

[Alison]

I wasn't crazy about this book. I wanted more recipies. IT was also HUGE! Wouldn't fit on my bookshelf. Returned.

[Rich · Rating 3 out of 5]

A good collection that's representative of the region's cuisine, but, in the series, not nearly as good as the Provence edition.