Lidia Cooks from the Heart of Italy
A Feast of 175 Regional Recipes: A Cookbook
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Starred review from August 3, 2009
Bastianich, acclaimed restaurateur, star of a PBS cooking show and author (Lidia's Italy
, etc.), and her daughter Manuali offer a stellar array of regional Italian recipes in this tantalizing and lavishly photographed collection. They serve up authentic, hearty fare including such favorites as wedding soup from Basilicata, braised veal shanks from Lombardy and spaghetti with clam sauce from Le Marche. They celebrate and honor the cuisine of lesser-known parts of the country including Emilia-Romagna's sweet and sour little onions, Molise's braised octopus with spaghetti, Calabria's spicy calamari and Liguria's stuffed vegetables. In her trademark style, Bastianich places each recipe in the context of its Italian heritage, sharing insight into the people and highlights of the region. Offerings run the gamut from fish and beef to pasta and vegetables and provide insight into the traditional Italian kitchen and lifestyle. Readers will enjoy this volume not only as a cookbook but as a vicarious travel guide, flipping the pages to take in the culture as well as the cuisine. Bastianich's fans will delight in this superb volume, which no kitchen should be without.
September 15, 2009
In this follow-up to "Lidia's Italy", Bastianich and daughter Tanya take readers on a culinary tour of Italy's 12 regions. Grouped by those areas, the recipes are simple enough for novice cooks. Included are appetizers, soups, salads and side dishes, condiments, pastas and risottos/rice, vegetarian main courses (aside from pasta), fish and seafood, meat and poultry, and desserts. In addition, there are stories about the history of the dishes. Foodies who have worn out their copies of Ada Boni's classic but o.p. "Italian Regional Cooking" and fans of Bastianich's PBS shows will love this companion to her newest series, "Lidia's Italy". [See Prepub Alert, "LJ" 6/1/09; 200,000-copy first printing; Good Cook Book Club main selection; 11-city tour.]
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