Italian Recipes

• Sardinia is famous for its lamb and pecorino (cheese made from sheep's milk).
  
  
• Arab influence played an important part in the development of Sicilian cuisine, including the introduction of lemon and pistachio. Sicily is also known for its seafood, particularly swordfish and tuna, but it is in desserts where the island has had the greatest influence of all: both gelato (ice cream) and granita (a delicious semi-frozen dessert made using sugar, water and flavorings) originate from Sicily.
  
  
• Calabria (the region corresponding to the "toe" of Italy) is known for its spicy version of salami.
  
  
• Naples is the home of mozzarella, pizza and sfogliatelle (Italian filled pastries).
  
  
  
• Whereas Sicilian and Neopolitan pizzas are quite thick, Roman pizzas extremely thin. Rome is also known for its use of offal and pecorino (cheese made from sheep's milk).
  
  
• Tuscany is known for its meat, white beans and unsalted bread.
  
  
• Products from the North of Italy include balsamic vinegar, lasagna, mortadella (a heat-cured pork sausage, served as a cold cut) parmigiano (parmesan cheese) polenta (a dish made from boiled corn-meal), prosciutto (dry cured ham), ragu (bolognese sauce), rice and tortellini (stuffed pasta). Piedmont and Lombardy both produce their own distinctive (and different from each other) variety of rice, and both forms are used to make risotto.

• Italian Recipes & Cookbooks
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• Recipes and Cookbooks

Classic Italian Cooking: Recipes for Mastering the Italian Kitchen By Valentina Harris MQ Publications Ltd Hardcover (332 pages) List Price: $31.00* Lowest New Price: $62.50* Lowest Used Price: $19.94* *(As of 08:16 Pacific 10 Mar 2010 More Info) Click Here Product Description: Celebrity chef Valentina Harris makes traditional Italian cooking easy. Over 100 authentic Italian recipes have been simplified for the contemporary kitchen - piquant ragus with fresh pasta, nutty risottos, succulent meat and poultry dishes, aromatic fish and creamy deserts. Her instructions cover all the techniques necessary to master Italian cooking, from rolling fresh pasta, perfect polenta and non-sticky gnocchi, notes on cleaning and boning fish and how to pick the choicest ingredients. An engaging raconteur she enriches her recipes with fascinating food facts and anecdotes from her store of childhood memories of the family kitchen in Tuscany. Her recipes are beautifully decorated with charming watercolour illustrations.

Simple Italian Recipes (Cooking for Today Step-By-Step) Whitecap Books Paperback (240 pages) List Price: $9.95* Lowest New Price: $5.95* Lowest Used Price: $0.99* *(As of 08:16 Pacific 10 Mar 2010 More Info) Click Here

The Four Seasons of Italian Cooking: Harvest Recipes from the Farms and Vineyards of the Italian Countryside By A. J. Battifarano Time Life Medical Hardcover (192 pages) List Price: $27.50* Lowest New Price: $99.00* Lowest Used Price: $4.98* *(As of 08:16 Pacific 10 Mar 2010 More Info) Click Here Product Description: Filled with more than 125 recipes, 200 glorious, full-page photographs, and wonderful narrative vignettes, this rich, seasonal celebration of the Italian countryside is as much a travelogue as it is a cookbook. The authors collect the culinary wisdom of cooks from all parts of Italy, offering in the process a delightful glimpse of the country's culture and ambience.

The ABC's of Cooking the Italian Way: Recipes From Mother's Kitchen By Joseph Albino Trafford Publishing Paperback (174 pages) List Price: $18.95* Lowest New Price: $17.01* Lowest Used Price: $17.01* Usually ships in 24 hours* *(As of 08:16 Pacific 10 Mar 2010 More Info) Click Here Product Description: I really never intended to write an Italian cookbook. In a sense, the book wrote itself. No sooner had I married a pretty, blue-eyed, Irish lass than I learned, alas, she lacked the know-how to prepare fine Italian dishes. Thus began the graduate gleaning of treasured, hand-me-down Italian recipes from my mother, Frances Carmella Senise Albino, one of eleven children. In the process, I soon came to the realization her mother, in an attempt to feed her large family nutritious, but inexpensive, filling meals, had turned, in no small way, to the use of vegetables. These recipes, my wife and I came to conclude, were, in a sense, a rather definitive study on how to best use vegetables in preparing fine Italian dishes. It was thus we decided to make these wonderful recipes available to the public in the form of an Italian cookbook. In addition to a selection of Italian dishes using vegetables only, a wide variety of economical Italian meat, poultry and fish recipes are included. Each recipe in the book will serve four, unless otherwise noted.

Italian Home Cooking: Italian Family Recipes; Passed Down from Generation to Generation By Duane Lund Lund S & R Publishing Perfect Paperback (160 pages) List Price: $9.95* Lowest New Price: $5.18* Lowest Used Price: $4.99* Usually ships in 24 hours* *(As of 08:16 Pacific 10 Mar 2010 More Info) Click Here Product Description: Italian Food has become an American tradition, and Italian Home Cooking offers nearly 150 authentic family recipes. Savor these incomparable dishes, from snacks and sides to entrees and desserts. These carefully selected recipes have been passed down for generations, so you know you're getting the best recipes!