Italian Cooking

Nigellissima: Easy Italian-Inspired Recipes

Nigellissima, like the Italian cooking from which it takes its inspiration, is a celebration of food that is fresh, delicious, and unpretentious. Here Nigella Lawson serves up 120 straightforward and mouthwatering recipes that are quick and easy yet elevate weeknight meals into no-fuss feasts.  “It was when I was sixteen or seventeen that I decided to be Italian. …

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Cooking with Italian Grandmothers: Recipes and Stories from Tuscany to Sicily

WINNER 2011 IACP Judges Choice Cookbook Award (International Association of Culinary Professionals)WINNER 2011 IPPY Gold Award (Independent Publisher Book Awards)Best Italian Cookbook of 2010 – Publisher’s WeeklyAmerican chef Jessica Theroux spent a year traveling throughout Italy, cooking and talking with Italian grandmothers, learning their secrets and listening to their stories. The result is a charming and authentic …

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Giada’s Family Dinners

In her New York Times bestseller Everyday Italian, Giada De Laurentiis introduced us to the simple, fresh flavors of her native Italian cuisine. Now, America’s favorite Italian cook is back with a new batch of simple, delicious recipes geared toward family meals—Italian style. These unpretentious and delicious meals are at the center of some of Giada’s warmest memories …

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Rustic Italian Food

Slow-cooked meats, homemade breads, flavorful pastas…these are the traditional comfort-food classics that Italians have been roasting, baking, curing, and making in their own kitchens for generations–dishes that people actually want to cook and eat. In Rustic Italian Food, acclaimed Philadelphia chef Marc Vetri celebrates the handcrafted cuisine of Italy, advocating a hands-on, back-to-the-basics approach to cooking. Home cooks …

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The Tucci Cookbook

The Tucci Family brings wine pairings, updated recipes, gorgeous photography, and family memories to a new generation of Italian food lovers.There is some truth to the old adage “Most of the world eats to live, but Italians live to eat.” What is it about a good Italian supper that feels like home, no matter where you’re from? …

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My Calabria: Rustic Family Cooking from Italy’s Undiscovered South

Recipes for easily accessible, fresh-from-the-garden Italian food from a Calabrian native and “bountiful good cook” (The Atlantic). At the tip of Italy’s “boot” lies Calabria. It is a beautiful, mountainous region populated by fishermen and small farmers. Rosetta Costantino grew up in this rugged landscape―her father a shepherd and wine maker and her mother his tireless assistant. When …

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Jamie’s Italy

Bestselling author Jamie Oliver finally devotes an entire book to America’s favorite cuisine–Italian! Italy and its wonderful flavors have always had a major influence on Jamie Oliver’s food and cooking. In Jamie’s Italy, he travels this famously gastronomic country paying homage to the classic dishes of each region and searching for new ideas to bring home. The result …

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Cook Like a Rock Star: 125 Recipes, Lessons, and Culinary Secrets

If chefs are the new rock stars, Anne wants you to rock in your own kitchen! For Anne Burrell, a classically trained chef and host of Food Network’s Secrets of a Restaurant Chef (where she shares impressive recipes and smart techniques that anyone can master), and Worst Cooks in America (the show that transforms hopeless home cooks), being a …

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