num_pages: 304
description: Moving from the Italian Piedmont to the Maremma and then to Le Marche chef Teresa Lust interweaves portraits of the people who served as her culinary guides with cultural and natural history in this charming exploration of authentic Italian cuisine.We learn how to prepare bagna caudaa robust dipping sauce of anchovies garlic and olive oilwith Lusts relatives outside Torino. We learn about making hand-stretched grissini Italys iconic breadstick the secrets of whipping up zabaione a classic dessert of ethereal foam made with egg yolks sugar and marsala. Then there is acquacotta a rustic soup that nourished generations of the areas shepherds and cowhands. In the town of Camerano an eighty-year-old woman reveals the art of hand-rolling pasta with a three-foot rolling pin.Underpinning Lusts travels is our journey from chef to cook mirroring the fact that Italians have been masters of home cooking for generations so they are an obvious source of inspiration. Today more and more people are rediscovering the pleasures of cooking at home and Lusts accountand wonderful recipeswill help readers bring an Italian sensibility to their home tables.
language: English
title: A Blissful Feast: Culinary Adventures in Italy's Piedmont, Maremma, and Le Marche
publisher: Pegasus Books