![]() ![]() It is also, of course, a book of excellent, incredibly simple, and kosher Italian recipes. ![]() A timeless collection of classic Italian recipesfrom Basil Bruschetta to the only tomato sauce you’ll ever need (the secret. A BON APPETIT BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR A beautiful new edition of one of the most beloved cookbooks of all time, from the Queen of Italian Cooking (Chicago Tribune). This is a book for anyone interested in food or war history, disappearing traditions, and this largely unknown part of Tuscany's Maremma, on the border of Lazio. About Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking. But what really makes this such a special book is Machlin's moving memoir that recounts a “vanished way of life” with old black and white photographs and menus of Jewish celebrations. It all started easily enough: I was bored of spaghetti bolognese and I wanted to make a ‘real’ ragù instead. ![]() For me, Marcella Hazan’s ‘The Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking’ is the cookbook. It also includes lost specialties of this part of Tuscany, like borricche (cinnamon pastries) and sfratti (honey and walnut logs). Medieval philosophers, in their reverence to him, used to simply refer to Aristotle as ‘The Philosopher’. In it you’ll find ricotta-filled pizza, deep fried artichokes (her 'hymn to an artichoke' essay is one of my favorite pieces of food writing) and fried mozzarella sandwiches, pappa al pomodoro, polenta pasticciata (a hearty peasant dish of baked polenta with porcini mushroom and cheese sauce), beet risotto (“add rice and cook, stirring with a wooden spoon, until rice begins to make a sharp, dry noise”) and gems like olio di arrosto (oil from a roast). Her first cookbook is full of unfussy, simple family recipes, a wonderful mix of Tuscan, Roman and Jewish specialties. ![]()
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