Cucina Povera

Cucina Povera
Author: Pamela Sheldon Johns
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
Total Pages: 199
Release: 2011-09-13
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 1449408516

"Brava, Ms. Sheldon Johns, for bringing this cooking to us with such grace, and with a reverence that goes to the heart of the Italian cuisine." --InMamasKitchen.com "Cucina Povera is a delightful culinary trip through Tuscany, revered for its straightforward food and practical people. In this beautifully photographed book you will be treated to authentic recipes, serene landscapes, and a deep reverence for all things Tuscan." --Mary Ann Esposito, the host of PBS' Ciao Italia and the author of Ciao Italia Family Classics The no-waste philosophy and use of inexpensive Italian ingredients (in Tuscan peasant cooking) are the basis for this lovely and very yummy collection of recipes. --Diane Worthington, Tribune Media Services Italian cookbook authority Pamela Sheldon Johns presents more than 60 peasant-inspired dishes from the heart of Tuscany inside Cucina Povera. This book is more than a collection of recipes of "good food for hard times." La cucina povera is a philosophy of not wasting anything edible and of using technique to make every bite as tasty as possible. Budget-conscious dishes utilizing local and seasonal fruits and vegetables create everything from savory pasta sauces, crusty breads and slow-roasted meats to flavorful vegetable accompaniments and end-of-meal sweets. The recipes inside Cucina Povera have been collected during the more than 20 years Johns has spent in Tuscany. Dishes such as Ribollita (Bread Soup), Pollo Arrosto al Vin Santo (Chicken with Vin Santo Sauce), and Ciambellone (Tuscan Ring Cake) are adapted from the recipes of Johns' neighbors, friends, and local Italian food producers. Lavish color and black-and-white photographs mingle with Johns' recipes and personal reflections to share an authentic interpretation of rustic Italian cooking inside Cucina Povera.

Cucina Povera

Cucina Povera
Author: Pamela Sheldon Johns
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
Total Pages: 199
Release: 2011-09-13
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 1449402380

A cookbook of recipes that Pamela Sheldon Johns collected and adapted from neighbors, friends, and local food producers while living in Tuscany. "Good food for hard times" - regional Tuscan recipes that take advantage of the fruits of the seasons from her farm community. Some of the recipes include: Gnudi (spinach and ricotta dumplings), Involtini di Maiale (stuffed pork rolls), Fagioli all'uccelletto (stewed beans with tomatoes), and Crostate di Prugne (Prune jam tart).

Clara's Kitchen

Clara's Kitchen
Author: Clara Cannucciari
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2009-10-27
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 1429963719

YouTube® sensation Clara Cannucciari shares her treasured recipes and commonsense wisdom in a heartwarming remembrance of the Great Depression Clara Cannucciari is a 94 year-old internet sensation. Her YouTube® Great Depression Cooking videos have an army of devoted followers. In Clara's Kitchen, she gives readers words of wisdom to buck up America's spirits, recipes to keep the wolf from the door, and tells her story of growing up during the Great Depression with a tight-knit family and a "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" philosophy of living. In between recipes for pasta with peas, eggplant parmesan, chocolate covered biscotti, and other treats Clara gives readers practical advice on cooking nourishing meals for less. Using lessons she learned during the Great Depression, she writes, for instance, about how to conserve electricity when cooking and how you can stretch a pot of pasta with a handful of lentils. She reminisces about her youth and writes with love about her grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Clara's Kitchen takes readers back to a simpler, if not more difficult time, and gives everyone what they need right now: hope for the future and a nice dish of warm pasta from everyone's favorite grandmother, Clara Cannuciari, a woman who knows what's really important in life.

Italian Country Cooking

Italian Country Cooking
Author: Loukie Werle
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2007
Genre: Cooking, Italian
ISBN: 9781876624699

Cucina povera ' there's no adequate translation, though 'humble food' has something of it ' is about the real food of Italy. The cooking techniques are simple, the ingredients seasonal and at their best. Cucina povera, as you'll discover when you try it, means eating with a warm heart ' quite possibly better than you've ever done in your life. As a Roman proverb says: 'Più se spenne e pejo se magna'... The more you spend, the worse you eat.

Cucina Povera

Cucina Povera
Author: Giulia Scarpaleggia
Publisher: Artisan
Total Pages: 600
Release: 2023-04-04
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 1648292100

Tuscan native and accomplished home cook Giulia Scarpaleggia shares the wholesome, comforting, and nostalgic recipes of cucina povera—Italian peasant cooking that is equal parts thrifty, nourishing, and delicious. The Italians call it l’arte dell’arrangiarsi—the art of making do with what you’ve got. They’ve been cooking this way for centuries, a unique approach to ingredients and techniques known as cucina povera, or peasant cooking, that results in the highest expression of what Italian food is all about—transforming simple components into unforgettably delicious and satisfying meals. It’s also a way of cooking that, with some notable exceptions like minestrone, ribollita, and pasta e fagioli, is barely known outside of Italy. Author Giulia Scarpaleggia is all set to change that. She’s a Tuscan home cook, food writer, and cooking teacher who is writing both to elevate the cucina povera of her native country and to honor the ingenuity and resourcefulness of the strong Italian women who came before her. In 100 recipes, beautifully photographed, Cucina Povera shows how to take the humblest of ingredients—beans and lentils; lesser-known cuts of meat; small, bony local fish; vegetables from the garden; rice and pasta; and leftovers—and make magic: Roasted Squash Risotto, Florentine Beef Stew, Chicken Cacciatore, Nettle and Ricotta Gnudi, Summer Borlotti Bean and Corn Soup, Sicilian Watermelon Pudding. And the author’s favorite comfort food, pappa al pomodoro, aka leftover bread and tomato soup. Soul satisfying, super healthy, budget friendly, no waste, easy to make, and as authentic as a piping-hot rice ball from a street vendor in Rome, the cooking of Cucina Povera is exactly how so many of us want to eat today.

My Calabria: Rustic Family Cooking from Italy's Undiscovered South

My Calabria: Rustic Family Cooking from Italy's Undiscovered South
Author: Rosetta Costantino
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 417
Release: 2010-11-08
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 0393065162

The first cookbook from this little-known region of Italy celebrates the richness of the region's landscape and the allure of its cuisine, featuring recipes for easily accessible, fresh-from-the-garden Italian food from a Calabrian native.

Cucina Fresca

Cucina Fresca
Author: Laplace Viana
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2001-06-19
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 0060936339

Italian in its inspiration, American in its outlook, Cucina Fresca brings a vivid new style to the earthy simplicity of Italy's culinary tradition. This is food at its freshest and simple to prepare.

The Eternal Table

The Eternal Table
Author: Karima Moyer-Nocchi
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 267
Release: 2019-03-08
Genre: History
ISBN: 1442269758

The Eternal Table: A Cultural History of Food in Rome is the first concise history of the food, gastronomy, and cuisine of Rome spanning from pre-Roman to modern times. It is a social history of the Eternal City seen through the lens of eating and feeding, as it advanced over the centuries in a city that fascinates like no other. The history of food in Rome unfolds as an engaging and enlightening narrative, recounting the human partnership with what was raised, picked, fished, caught, slaughtered, cooked, and served, as it was experienced and perceived along the continuum between excess and dearth by Romans and the many who passed through. Like the city itself, Rome’s culinary history is multi-layered, both vertically and horizontally, from migrant shepherds to the senatorial aristocracy, from the papal court to the flow of pilgrims and Grand Tourists, from the House of Savoy and the Kingdom of Italy to Fascism and the rise of the middle classes. The Eternal Table takes the reader on a culinary journey through the city streets, country kitchens, banquets, markets, festivals, osterias, and restaurants illuminating yet another facet of one of the most intriguing cities in the world.

A Tomato Grows in Brooklyn

A Tomato Grows in Brooklyn
Author: David Ruggerio
Publisher:
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2021-10-12
Genre:
ISBN: 9781684338795

Renowned chef and author David Ruggerio takes you back to Brooklyn and introduces you to the Italian-American experience and cuisine he knows, grew up with, and adores. This humble cuisine reflects a beautiful narrative of joy, sadness, fatigue but always rich in humanity and heritage. A TOMATO GROWS IN BROOKLYN is full of luscious pictures with more than 135 recipes that will make your mouth water. With a bite of Involtini of Eggplant, a taste of Octopus in Warm Vinaigrette, a forkful of Carbonara of Artichoke, a morsel of Gnocchi all'Amatriciana, or a mouthful of Panna Cotta of Orange, Caramel and Figs, you will discover what makes the Italian American cuisine of Brooklyn unique.

Italian Regional Cooking

Italian Regional Cooking
Author: Ada Boni
Publisher: Gramercy
Total Pages: 292
Release: 1994-02-02
Genre: Cookery, Italian.
ISBN: 9780517693490

A culinary treasury of 600 authentic recipes from several Italian regions.