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Food and Wine's Best of the Best Volume 10 featuring A Ligurian Kitchen
A Ligurian Kitchen
Recipes and Tales from the Italian Riviera
by Laura Giannatempo
photographs by Michael Piazza
240 pages. 16 color, 11 black & white photographs.
$29.00 hardcover. In stores now.
Hippocrene Books, Inc. New York.
News
My cookbook, A Ligurian Kitchen: Recipes and Tales from the Italian Riviera, was chosen by Food & Wine magazine as one of the best cookbooks of 2006! Three recipes from the book plus a new, yummy risotto recipe have been published in their new Best of the Best cookbook, volume 10.
Here are some of the great responses A Ligurian Kitchen has been getting:
"One of the year's best cookbooks"
Food & Wine magazine
“A highly engaging, charmingly personal cookbook packed with authentic Ligurian recipes.”
Fine Cooking magazine
“I loved this book. It has a real sense of place. Laura Giannatempo’s passion for Liguria, its countryside, seashore, customs, and culinary traditions is wondrously captured in this very personal and personable book.”
Joyce Goldstein, chef, food writer, and the author of Antipasti
“What a fun book! A Ligurian Kitchen's fresh recipes are so soulful they give the feeling that they have been revived for the modern home kitchen. A great cookbook for professionals and amateur cooks alike.”
Scott Conant, chef/owner of L'Impero and Alto in NYC and the author of Scott Conant's New Italian Cooking
“Liguria is a small, but magnificent region that has given Italy unpretentious and very flavorful food. And now, Laura Giannatempo takes us there. Her book is personal and captivating. It shares anecdotes as well as treasured Ligurian recipes. An asset to anyone's library.”
Biba Caggiano, chef/owner of Biba in Sacramento and the author of Biba's Italy