Molto Italiano: 327 Simple Italian Recipes to Cook at Home Book

Mario Batali's Molto Italiano features 327 simple Italian recipes to cook at home and is rich in local lore, with Batali's humorous and enthusiastic voice, familiar to those who have come to know him on his popular Food Network programs. Easy to use and simple to read, some of these recipes are those as seen on TV in the eight years of "Molto Mario" programs on the Food Network, including those from "Mediterranean Mario," "Mario Eats Italy," and "Ciao America with Mario Batali." Batali's distinctive voice provides a historical and cultural perspective with a humorous bent to demystify even the more elaborate dishes as well as showing ways to shorten or simplify everything from the purchasing of good ingredients to pre-production and countdown schedules of holiday meals. Informative head notes include bits about the provenance of the recipes and the odd historical fact. Molto Italiano features ten soups, thirty antipasti (many vegetarian or vegetable based), forty pasta dishes representing many of the twenty-one regions of Italy, twenty fish and shellfish dishes, twenty chicken dishes, twenty pork or lamb dishes and twenty side dishes, each of which can be served as a light meal. Add twenty desserts and a foundation of basic formation recipes and this book will be the only Italian cooking book needed in the home cook's library. 528 pages, hardcover.Mario Batali is chef/owner of several restaurants in New York's Greenwich Village. He has been a mainstay of television's Food Network for several years.Read More