A Taste of Italy: Flavors and Views

Experience Italy through pasta recipes and stunning photographs.

Pasta: The Spirit and Craft of Italy's Greatest Food, with Recipes

Authors: Missy Robbins, Talia Baiocchi   
ISBN: 9781984857002
Pages: 416
Year: 2021
Publisher: Ten Speed Press 
Language: English

Description:

JAMES BEARD AWARD NOMINEE • A stylish, transporting pasta master class from New York City’s premier pasta chef, with recipes for 40 handmade pasta shapes and 100 Italian American, regional Italian, and modern dishes

IACP AWARD FINALIST • “Missy Robbins brings her extraordinary knowledge and generous heart to teach us to prepare the pastas that made her restaurants, Lilia and Misi, two of the best in the world.”—Ina Garten, Barefoot Contessa

Food trends come and go, but pasta holds strong year after year. Despite its humble ingredients—made of merely flour and water or flour and eggs—the magic, rituals, and art of pasta making span over five centuries. Two ingredients are turned into hundreds of stuffed, rolled, extruded, dried, stamped, and hand-cut shapes, each with its own unique provenance and enrobed in a favored sauce.

New York City chef Missy Robbins fell in love with Italian food and pasta twenty-five years ago. She has been cooking, researching, and studying her way across Italy ever since, which led her to open two of America’s most renowned pasta restaurants, Lilia and Misi. With illustrated step-by-step recipes for handmaking forty of the most versatile pasta shapes and one hundred recipes for Italian American, regional Italian, and Robbins’s own best pasta dishes, plus two dozen vegetable sides, this is the hard-working manual for home cooks who aspire to master the art of pasta cooking.

Whether making pasta sheets for lasagna or stamping out pasta “coins” for Corzetti with Goat Cheese and Asparagus—or even buying handmade pasta to make Tagliatelle with Porcini, Rosemary, and Garlic—Robbins provides all the inspiration, instruction, and encouragement required to make pasta exceptionally well. Evocatively photographed with nearly 100 full-color mouthwatering photos of pasta dishes and twenty images from Italy, this is a richly illustrated ode to the ingredients, recipes, and craft that have made pasta the most popular fare of a beloved cuisine.

Rome through the eyes of a Roman photographer

Authors: Luca Lanciotti 
ISBN: 9788872746928
Pages: 100
Year: 2023
Publisher: Independently Published
Language: English

Description:

Hi, I'm a Roman with a passion for my city.
I wanted to combine these 100 photos that represent my city to create this photographic collection that represents my love for Rome!

The book was made in hard cover and high quality colored paper to become a unique book representing the "eternal city".

An excellent gift idea for those who love photography, Italy, Rome and the Vatican!

Links to international organizations or institutions that deal with the central theme of the book:

• Italian Cuisine:
  • Accademia Italiana della Cucina

  • 45 Easy & Classic Italian Pasta Recipes

    
    
• Italian Culture/Tourism:
  • Official Tourism Website
  • UNESCO World Heritage Centre (for Rome's historical sites)

Keywords: pasta, Italy, Rome, cookbook, photography, Italian recipes, travel, photo book, Italian food, handmade pasta

Target audience for this book: Food lovers, cooking enthusiasts, Italy admirers, travel buffs, photography enthusiasts, gift buyers, home cooks, Italian culture enthusiasts, cookbook collectors, Rome travelers

Genre: Cookbook, Photography, Travel, Food & Drink, Cultural