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by Antonio Carluccio

Antonio Carluccio's Simple Cooking is a distillation of a lifetime of passion, full of Antonio's firm belief that cooking, whether for oneself or for family and friends, is one of the most loving of human skills. The recipes included in the book are all very easy to cook, perfect for those with little experience or who are short of time. Throughout there are clever suggestions for how to 'upgrade' a basic recipe alongside ingenious ideas for using up leftovers. These are Antonio's favourite recipes, illustrated with fabulous photography from Alistair Hendy and including several step-by-step sequences.

Genres: Cookbooks, Cooking, Food, Nonfiction

176 pages, Hardcover

First published August 1, 2009

About the author

Italian chef, based in London.

Carluccio was given the national honour of Commendatore dell' Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana by the Italian government, in 1998 for his contribution to the Italian food industry. In 2007 he was awarded an Order of the British Empire

Reviews

[Terri · Rating 4 out of 5]

There is a reason this book is called Simple Cooking for it is that. Simple and yet full flavoured cooking for the experienced home cook or the inexperienced. Mostly clean, fresh picked from the garden type cooking that is 98% Italian in origin. 98% Italian because there is the odd recipe thrown in which is obviously not Italian, ie the Mango and Lime Syrup recipe in the Dessert section.

I believe that a book like this from the mind of the effervescent Antonio Carluccio, would be a perfect cookbook to gift a teenager or a young adult when they move out of home for University or just to a home of their own. The ingredients are not hard to source or hard to combine into a magnificent and healthy meal, example Passato di zucca (Pumpkin Soup) or Spaghetti alla carrettiera (Cart-Driver Spaghetti; which is basically onion, olive oil, ripe tomatoes, dried porcini and tuna with pasta). Food to live on well and yet cheap to buy and easily available from either farmer's markets or small grocery stores or super markets.

Not that all the recipes are cheap and simple. Recipes like Whole Duck with Parma fat or Pasta with Truffles are in this book, only they are few. The recipes are mostly affordable, simple Italian cooking that we can all sit down to enjoy without breaking the bank. The food that is the backbone of Italian farmhouse cooking.

[Catherine Woodman]

Outstanding, simple food--the tuna stuffed eggs were amazing, the baked pasta is inspirational, and I have to make the spinach ricotta balls this week and try to bake them instead of frying them, because it seems you can use them in everything. i like several things about the book--the first is the recipes but a close second is the gorgeous photos of excellent quality that accompany a majority of the recipes. This give an idea of what you are shooting for when you make this recipe, and that is a great help. I am not familiar with this cook, who has a BBC cooking show, and I would have missed this entirely if not for a food blog that I follow.

[Fi · Rating 4 out of 5]

Managed to pick up brand new copy of this for £4 in a well-known High Street chain *cough* WHS *cough* An eclectic collection of Italian recipes ranging from ridiulously easy to "how on earth do you do that?"