For many, Italian food is synonymous with pizza and spaghetti, but this colorful cookbook proves that there is so much more to this diverse culinary destination! From the olive groves of Tuscany to the spicy dishes of Sicily, this book traces the culinary geography of Italy. The books easy-to-follow recipes will inspire readers to get cooking.
an amateur's adventures as kitchen slave, line cook, pasta maker, and apprentice to a Dante-quoting butcher in Tuscany
Buford, Bill
2006
The author provides an account of his experiences training to be a chef in the kitchen of Mario Batali's three-star New York restaurant, Babbo, where he worked himself up from kitchen slave to cook, while at the same time developing relationships with Batali and other kitchen colleagues, and tells of his further adventures as a butcher's apprentice in Italy.