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Return to Tuscany: Recipes from a Tuscan Cookery School
Giancarlo and Katie Caldesi, the team behind two of London’s most popular Tuscan restaurants, decided to relocate to Tuscany for a few months to rediscover Giancarlo’s culinary roots and run a series of courses in traditional Tuscan cooking. Return to Tuscany is a delightful record of their sojourn. Each chapter begins with a lesson, echoing the different stages of their cooking course, guiding you through the basic techniques of making pasta, assembling an antipasti platter, cooking meat on an open fire, and baking your own focaccia. In 80 regional recipes—from Jam Crostata and Pici with Arrabiata Sauce to Chicken with Cinnamon and Lemon—Giancarlo and Katie reveal methods passed down through generations of the Caldesi family.
160 pages, Hardcover
First published May 1, 2006
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August 10, 2015
A very slim book riding off the back of the TV series.
At one time the Caldesi's had a restaurant in Bray, UK, the home of the Roux's and Heston.
One irritating feature is that many of the recipes for standard Italian recipes have someone's christian name tacked on the beginning, why ?
If its a classic dish it already has a name, if it's a new dish then you can call it what you want.
The appalling A.W.T. had the habit of doing this on a Saturday morning TV cookery programme.
It was ' My Coq au Vin, My Shepherds Pie etc. '
No it isn't, either it's Coq au Vin or it's not, it's either Shepherds Pie, or it isn't. There may be regional differences, but not personal. It's like some Vegan foods being labelled Vegan Bacon, no its not, bacon is from a pig.
I bought it cheap at a charity shop, anyone paying £16 for it needs their head examined.
At one time the Caldesi's had a restaurant in Bray, UK, the home of the Roux's and Heston.
One irritating feature is that many of the recipes for standard Italian recipes have someone's christian name tacked on the beginning, why ?
If its a classic dish it already has a name, if it's a new dish then you can call it what you want.
The appalling A.W.T. had the habit of doing this on a Saturday morning TV cookery programme.
It was ' My Coq au Vin, My Shepherds Pie etc. '
No it isn't, either it's Coq au Vin or it's not, it's either Shepherds Pie, or it isn't. There may be regional differences, but not personal. It's like some Vegan foods being labelled Vegan Bacon, no its not, bacon is from a pig.
I bought it cheap at a charity shop, anyone paying £16 for it needs their head examined.
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