LA Tavola Italiana - Softcover

Maresca, Tom; Darrow, Diane

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1888173394 ISBN 13: 9781888173390

Publisher: Akadine Pr, 2000

“An Italian meal is not just for allaying hunger,” the authors aptly write. “Dining in Italy is an af�rmation of the preciousness of simple things — of the worth of bread, of oil, of wine, and of ourselves. . . . For animals, eating is survival. For humans, eating is a rite of civilization. For Italians, eating is the single great art accessible to us all.” Maresca and Darrow’s superb celebration of the Italian table is a mine of information about the cuisines of Italy’s three major culinary regions and the varieties of wine that complement them. The authors’ respect for ingredients and their scores of excellent, expertly tested recipes — covering all courses from antipasti to desserts — provide students with an education in habits of husbandry and appetite that will inform a lifetime’s meals.

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Introduction by James Mustich, Jr.

From Publishers Weekly:

Lucid directions and brief, pointed wine suggestions accompany an enticing assortment of Italian homestyle recipes. The fare is organized by broad geographic regions. The "bold and forthright" Northern dishes include tortellini with Bolognese meat sauce, lamb with fresh horseradish, duck braised in Barolo, broiled tuna steaks with fennel and sage-scented tea bread. Garlic bread with tomatoes, linguine with clam sauce, veal scallops with prosciutto, chicken liver and anchovies, potato gnocchi with tomato sauce and hazelnut macaroons are items on the Central Italian menu. The flavors of the South, which the husband-and-wife authors (he wrote Mastering Wine and she is a food and travel writer) call "light, bright, and vivid," appear in rigatoni with ricotta and sausage, eggplant baked with mozzarella, veal marsala and zabaglione. Illustrations not seen by PW.
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