Название: The Italian Home Cook
Автор: Silvia Colloca
Издательство: Plum
Год: 2022
Страниц: 256
Язык: английский
Формат: epub
Размер: 54.4 MB

Italians are taught from a young age to cherish the ingredients we cook with, whether home grown or store bought. We have observed our nonnas caring for these ingredients with passion and knowledge, and turning them into meals we will never stop craving or recreating.

Australia's favourite Italian home cook, Silvia Colloca, shares the 100 recipes that will show you how to cook like a true Italian, using the most humble of ingredients: end-of-summer tomatoes, salty anchovies, vibrant greens, oozy burrata and many more.

These are the dishes made lovingly in homes around Italy every day, and they are often brought to life with only a handful of ingredients and the simplest equipment. Try silky handmade noodles, savoury pies filled with fresh ricotta and parmigiano, crispy fried seafood, or slow-cooked ossobuco over saffron risotto. The Italian Home Cook is your essential guide to shopping, cooking and eating like an Italian, and will help you bring a little slice of Italy into your own home.

Italians have an innate respect for tradition, which is expressed with love and restraint. We maintain the customs with pride and are strongly opinionated about leaving out unnecessary ingredients, to allow the simple beauty of each dish to realise its potential. Less truly is more. Italians are natural, inventive home cooks, but such creativity is expressed thriftily and ingeniously more than with sophistication. It takes far more imagination to cook a delicious meal out of just three or four ingredients and a wooden spoon than it does using fifteen ingredients and as many kitchen gadgets! Above all, we are taught from a young age to cherish the ingredients we cook with. Whether they are home grown or store bought, we have observed and absorbed the actions of hands more experienced than ours caring for them with passion and knowledge, and turning them into meals that we will never stop craving or recreating, and that we will inevitably pass on to younger, hungrier hands than ours. We have been made home cooks by the unspoken language of food, and in this book I want to share with you all that I have learned about Italian home cooking so that you can bring this rich and evocative world to life in your own kitchen. Ultimately, this book is for all of you: the accomplished home cooks, the novices, those who love kitchen gadgets and those who don’t, those who look at the picture and then improvise, and those who follow the recipe.