Ciao Italia in Umbria: Recipes and Reflections from the Heart of Italy Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Ciao Italia in Umbria: Recipes and Reflections from the Heart of Italy Book

Cookbooks about Tuscan cuisine abound, but the food of its easterly neighbor, Umbria, remains mostly unexplored. Mary Ann Esposito's Ciao Italia in Umbria meets this dearth handily. A "traveling cookbook," it showcases the region's healthy, rustic food while providing a first-person look at its restaurants, home cooks, and singular occupations, like truffle hunting. The core of the book--an offshoot of Esposito's PBS series Ciao Italia--is its 60 easy-to-do recipes, which feature the area's most notable and delicious products, including olive oil, black truffles, farro, and wine. If the relatively few formulas provided leave readers hungry for more, those offered, such as Carp with Rosemary and Fennel and Fava Beans with Olive Oil and Pecorino Cheese, couldn't be more inviting.The recipes grow from Esposito's narratives. For example, her truffle hunt chapter yields the traditional Penne with Truffles and Cream as well as the more singular Veal with Black Truffle and Strawberry Sauce. Similarly, a section on local female chefs leads to two unusual gnocchi recipes--prune- and zucchini-filled--while one on Umbrian flatbreads offers formulas for oil-fried brustengo, spinach-filled torta sul testo, and a luscious prosciutto pie. Seafood is well represented, as are recipes for the pork delicacies of Norcia, including the delicious Sweet Pork Sausages with Grapes. Readers will also enjoy making sweets like Chocolate Spumone, exemplary strufoli (honey balls), and addictive mezzalune, almond crescent cookies. With an "address book" of outstanding Umbrian restaurants, the book provides a compelling culinary tour of a region too often neglected by cookbooks but, happily, celebrated here. --Arthur BoehmRead More

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  • Product Description

    Known as the Green Heart of Italy, the central region of Umbria, just to the east of Tuscany, is largely unspoiled by the modern world. Mary Ann Esposito loves the foods, traditions, and people of Umbria so much that shes devoting the entire 2002 season of Ciao Italia to it. In this intimate, passionate traveling cookbook, Esposito takes readers through this lush, mountainous, and tradition-filled region, with 60 recipes for its healthy, rustic food, profiles of its welcoming people, and an intimate tour of its food markets, home kitchens, vegetable gardens, wineries, and restaurants.Fans of Mary Anns show as well as anyone who loves the top-notch Italian olive oil, wine, black truffles, vegetables, and country breads will be transported in this very special book.

  • 0312303297
  • 9780312303297
  • Mary Ann Esposito
  • 1 November 2002
  • Saint Martin's Press Inc.
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 256
  • First
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