Italy is a land of rich flavors, where incredible food and wine stretch from the sun-kissed shores of Sicily to the majestic peaks of the Alps. Unleash your inner chef and explore this section devoted to the delicious world of Italian cuisine.
On this page, you'll discover a carefully curated selection of cookbooks celebrating Italian cuisine. To purchase any featured title, simply click the secure link to Amazon included with each listing.
My Calabria: Rustic Family Cooking from Italy's Undiscovered South.
At the tip of Italy's "boot" lies Calabria. It is a beautiful, mountainous region populated by fishermen and small farmers. Rosetta Costantino grew up in this rugged landscape, her father a shepherd and wine maker and her mother his tireless assistant.
Rosetta shares her family's story and introduces readers to the fiery simplicity of Calabrian food.
This is a cookbook for our time: a reminder of how ingenious and resourceful cooks can create a gorgeous local cuisine.
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Homemade Pasta Made Simple: A Pasta Cookbook with Easy Recipes & Lessons to Make Fresh Pasta Any Night.
Discover the joy of creating your own pasta with the essential homemade pasta cookbook! This step-by-step pasta book shows you how easy it is to make delicious pasta (and even sauce!)―all completely from scratch.
Teaching everything from mixing dough to drying pasta, this pasta making book for beginners and experts alike. Want to make farfalle with Bolognese? Ravioli with sun-dried tomato sauce? Gnocchi with pumpkin and sausage sauce? Open this pasta cookbook for dozens of simple pasta and sauce recipes that you can mix and match to make your perfect pasta night.
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Mastering Pizza: The Art and Practice of Handmade Pizza, Focaccia, and Calzone.
Pizza remains America's favorite food, but one that many people hesitate to make at home. In Mastering Pizza, award-winning chef Marc Vetri tackles the topic with his trademark precision, making perfect pizza available to anyone. The recipes—gleaned from years spent researching recipes in Italy and perfecting them in America—have a variety of base doughs of different hydration levels, which allow home cooks to achieve the same results with a regular kitchen oven as they would with a professional pizza oven.
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Italian American: Red Sauce Classics and New Essentials: A Cookbook
IACP AWARD FINALIST • Reimagine Italian-American cooking, with more than 125 recipes rich with flavor and nostalgia from the celebrated husband-and-wife chef team of Michelin-starred Don Angie in New York City.
ONE OF THE BEST COOKBOOKS OF THE YEAR: New York Post, Minneapolis Star Tribune, Food52, Epicurious, Taste of Home
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The Tucci Cookbook
The Tucci Family brings wine pairings, updated recipes, gorgeous photography, and family memories to a new generation of Italian food lovers.
There is some truth to the old adage, “Most of the world eats to live, but Italians live to eat.
What is it about a good Italian supper that feels like home, no matter where you’re from? Heaping plates of steaming pasta . . . crisp fresh vegetables...simple hearty soups...sumptuous stuffed meats...all punctuated with luscious, warm confections.
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Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking: 30th Anniversary Edition: A Cookbook
One of the most beloved cookbooks of all time, from “the Queen of Italian Cooking” (Chicago Tribune). A timeless collection of classic Italian recipes—from Basil Bruschetta to the only tomato sauce you’ll ever need (the secret ingredient: butter)—beautifully illustrated and featuring new forewords by Lidia Bastianich and Victor Hazan.
Marcella Hazan introduced Americans to a whole new world of Italian food. In this, her magnum opus, she gives us a manual for cooks of every level of expertise—from beginners to accomplished professionals.
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La Cucina: The Regional Cooking of Italy
Fifty years ago, a group of Italian scholars gathered to discuss a problem: how to preserve traditional Italian cooking. They formed the Italian Academy of Cuisine to document classic recipes from every region. The academy’s more than seven thousand associates spread out to villages everywhere, interviewing grandmothers and farmers at their stoves, transcribing their recipes—many of which had never been documented before. This is the culmination of that research, an astounding feat—2,000 recipes that represent the patrimony of Italian country cooking.
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Pasta Grannies: The Official Cookbook: The Secrets of Italy's Best Home Cooks
*WINNER OF THE JAMES BEARD AWARD FOR SINGLE SUBJECT!
"When you have good ingredients, you don't have to worry about cooking. They do the work for you." – Lucia, 85
Learn how to make pasta like Italian nonnas do. Pasta Grannies is a wonderful collection of time-perfected Italian pasta recipes from the people who have spent a lifetime cooking for love, not a living: Italian grandmothers.
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Mastering Pasta: The Art and Practice of Handmade Pasta, Gnocchi, and Risotto
Award-winning chef Marc Vetri researched pasta for ten more years. Now, the respected master of Italian cuisine finally shares his vast knowledge of pasta, gnocchi, and risotto in this inspiring, informative primer featuring expert tips and techniques, and more than 100 recipes.
Vetri’s personal stories of travel and culinary discovery in Italy appear alongside his easy-to-follow, detailed explanations of how to make and enjoy fresh handmade pasta.
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Cucina Siciliana: Fresh and vibrant recipes from a unique Mediterranean island.
In this book you’ll discover authentic recipes for the best food Sicily has to offer including antipasti, vibrant salads, light soups, and pasta. Delicious meat and fish recipes feature Sarde a Beccaficco (stuffed sardines), and Abbacchio alla Cacciatovia (pan-fried Spring lamb with herb and anchovy sauce).
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My Lifelong Food Adventures in Italy: Ciao Italia
WINNER! "IPPY" Award!
Ciao Italia: My Lifelong Food Adventures in Italy was named Bronze medalist in the Specialty Cookbooks category of the 2019 Independent Publisher Book Awards.
Fans have three words to describe her cooking style: traditional, authentic and passionate. From creating and launching CIAO ITALIA in 1989 to authoring 12 cookbooks, Esposito has inspired a worldwide audience who want to know more about Italian food and culture.
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