Lidia Cooks from the Heart of Italy

A Feast of 175 Regional Recipes: A Cookbook

Author  Lidia Matticchio Bastianich and Tanya Bastianich Manuali
Lidia Cooks from the Heart of Italy

From the Emmy award-winning chef and bestselling author, a collection of 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…

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October 20, 2009
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