Awards James Beard Foundation Book Awards Description from the Emmy award-winning chef and bestselling author Lidia Bastianich, a collection of 175 wonderful, uncomplicated Recipes from little-known parts of Italy, celebrating time-honored techniques and elemental, good family cooking.
Penetrating the Heart of Italy--starting at the north, working down to the tip, and ending in Sardinia--Lidia unearths a wealth of recipes: from Trentino-Alto Adige: Delicious Dumplings with Speck (cured pork); apples accenting soup, pasta, salsa, and salad; local beer used to roast a chicken and to braise beef from Lombardy: A world of rice--baked in a frittata, with lentils, with butternut squash, with gorgonzola, and the special treat of Risotto Milan-Style with Marrow and Saffron from Valle d\'Aosta: Polenta with Black Beans and Kale, and local fontina featured in fondue, in a roasted pepper salad, and embedded in veal chops from Liguria: An array of Stuffed Vegetables, a bread salad, and elegant Veal Stuffed with a Mosaic of Vegetables from Emilia-Romagna: An olive oil dough for making the traditional, versatile vegetable tart erbazzone, as well as the secrets of making tagliatelle and other pasta doughs, and an irresistible Veal Scaloppine Bolognese from Le Marche: Farro with Roasted Pepper Sauce, Lamb Chunks with Olives, and Stuffed Quail in Parchment from Umbria: A taste of the sweet Norcino black truffle, and seductive dishes such as Potato-Mushroom Cake with Braised Lentils, Sausages in the Skillet with Grapes, and Chocolate Bread Parfait from Abruzzo: Fresh scrippelle (cr pe) ribbons baked with spinach or garnishing a soup, fresh pasta made with a "guitar," Rabbit with Onions, and Lamb Chops with Olives from Molise: Fried Ricotta; homemade cavatelli pasta in a variety of ways
Spaghetti with Calamari, Shrimp, and Scallops; and Braised Octopus from Basilicata: Wedding Soup, Fiery Maccheroni, and Farro with Pork Rag from Calabria: Shepherd\'s Rigatoni, steamed swordfish, and Almond Biscott.
Awards James Beard Foundation Book Awards Description from the Emmy award-winning chef and bestselling author Lidia Bastianich, a collection of 175 wonderful, uncomplicated Recipes from little-known parts of Italy, celebrating time-honored techniques and elemental, good family cooking
