A Taste of Southern Italy: Delicious Recipes and a Dash of Culture
“Cooks whose culinary adventures have heretofore stopped at Tuscany will discover a whole new world of Italian food.”–Publishers Weekly“Southern Italian food has a range of style and savor that sweeps from the piquant to the delicate, embracing restraint and sensitivity as often as it demonstrates aggressiveness. It is created by cooks with the courage to let a food be, to let it taste like its own good self. Southerners revere the purity of flavors and textures of a food. They are content to tear a few leaves of a wild mint over a roasted fish, to grill fat prawns in lemon leaves, to roast suckling lamb in a terracotta pot with a great heft of sweet butter. It is a cuisine that aspires to dignity even in the midst of insufficiency.”–from the Introduction