Want to cook Italian food but terrified by the complicated recipes? Exasperated because you can’t find the right ingredients? Wish you could eat chilli with your pasta? Ritu Dalmia, chef and owner of Diva, Delhi’s most beloved Italian restaurant, teaches you how to cook authentic, delicious Italian food in your kitchen that will have you begging for more. She tells you how and what to cook, from show-off dinner parties to a romantic supper à deux, from sharing your table with friends to cosying up on the sofa watching TV. Ritu writes of how regions in Italy differ in their cooking style, what wine to pair with what food, how to adapt Indian ingredients to Italian cooking, and also provides an updated list of suppliers in all the metros. Stylishly designed, with stunning photography, Italian Khana will be your guru and best friend in the kitchen.

Have a sweet tooth? Then it s time to try some of the amazing recipes inItalian Khana Desserts. You will find here the best chocolate cake recipe ever, unusual ways toserve fruit-peaches cooked in wine, marinated strawberries with mascarpone-and classic Italiandesserts: canoli, panna cotta, apple cake and tiramisu.

Like the idea of cooking Italian food but worried about the vegetarianoptions? Italian Khana Vegetarian gives you delicious and fool-proof recipes for authentic Italianvegetarian which anyone can prepare in their homes. From soups and salads-minestrone, pumpkinsoup, eggplant and rice salad, salad caprese-to substantial main courses-filo pie with spinach,ricotta and pumpkin, risotto primavera-Italian Khana Vegetarian will give you recipes for everyoccasion from quick, easy meals to cooking for a dinner party

Want to impress your dinner guests? Try some of the amazing, andyet oh-so simple, recipes in Italian Khana Dinner Party. From unusual starter/canapés-beetrootand berry shots, eggplant and goats cheese fritters-to wow-factor main courses-roast chickenwith lemon and pomegranate, avocado mousse, prawns in black pepper and oregano-ItalianKhana Dinner Party gives you great recipes for impressive yet effortless food.

Cucina povera is about making great food with simple, fresh, seasonal produce and available ingredients. Southern Italian Family Cooking shows you how to bring the delicious food of this region to your family's table. Healthy food on a sensible budget is important to many of us today but in Southern Italy, la cucina povera has been a philosophy for generations. These are delicious, filling recipes that will become family favourites in your own home, such as: · Antipasti - traditional starters, cured meats with bread and vegetables in oil. · Slow cooked meals such as ragu - a delicious tomato based sauce with meat. · Stuffed peppers, using stale bread and herbs to fill peppers prior to baking. · Mussels in a tomato and white wine sauce. · Pork cotolette, pork escalopes covered in egg and seasoned breadcrumbs, flash fried. · And a range of fabulous desserts for when we want a sweet treat - smooth panna cotta with berries and tasty tiramisu. It's not just about the food; it's about the whole ethos of Italian family life. This books shows you how to be creative with what's available to you and gives you an incredibly healthy way to live and enjoy food with family and friends.

ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION (1919): “One of the beneficial results of the Great War has been the teaching of thrift to the American housewife. For patriotic reasons and for reasons of economy, more attention has been bestowed upon the preparing and cooking of food that is to be at once palatable, nourishing and economical. In the Italian cuisine we find in the highest degree these three qualities. That it is palatable, all those who have partaken of food in an Italian trattoria or at the home of an Italian family can testify, that it is healthy the splendid manhood and womanhood of Italy is a proof more than sufficient. And who could deny, knowing the thriftiness of the Italian race, that it is economical? It has therefore been thought that a book of PRACTICAL RECIPES OF THE ITALIAN CUISINE could be offered to the American public with hope of success. It is not a pretentious book, and the recipes have been made as clear and simple as possible. Some of the dishes described are not peculiar to Italy. All, however, are representative of the Cucina Casalinga of the peninsular Kingdom, which is not the least product of a lovable and simple people, among whom the art of living well and getting the most out of life at a moderate expense has been attained to a very high degree.”

The tradition of tasty Italian food continues with this beautifully illustrated collection of creative recipes, from primo to dolci! As a child in America, Giuliano Hazan’s mother, Marcella, packed him meatballs with potatoes and peas, veal stew with mushrooms, and other homemade dishes for lunch—dishes that in no way resembled the peanut butter sandwiches his classmates enjoyed. And so began his appreciation of great food. Hazan Family Favorites celebrates delicious recipes from the Hazan family, prepared just as Giuliano prepares them for his own family today. Here are 85 recipes for every course in the Italian meal, including Appetizers, Soups, Pastas and Rice, Meats and Seafood, and Sides and Desserts. With recipes from Swiss Chard Tortelloni to Strawberry Gelato and everything in between, Hazan Family Favorites offers an intimate look at this iconic family and their most beloved recipes.

Not so long ago, Italian food was regarded as a poor man's gruel-little more than pizza, macaroni with sauce, and red wines in a box. Here, John Mariani shows how the Italian immigrants to America created, through perseverance and sheer necessity, an Italian-American food culture, and how it became a global obsession. The book begins with the Greek, Roman, and Middle Eastern culinary traditions before the boot-shaped peninsula was even called "Italy," then takes readers on a journey through Europe and across the ocean to America alongside the poor but hopeful Italian immigrants who slowly but surely won over the hearts and minds of Americans by way of their stomachs. Featuring evil villains such as the Atkins diet and French chefs, this is a rollicking tale of how Italian cuisine rose to its place as the most beloved fare in the world, through the lives of the people who led the charge. With savory anecdotes from these top chefs and restaurateurs: - Mario Batali - Danny Meyer - Tony Mantuano - Michael Chiarello - Giada de Laurentiis - Giuseppe Cipriani - Nigella Lawson And the trials and triumphs of these restaurants: - Da Silvano - Spiaggia - Bottega - Union Square Cafe - Maialino - Rao's - Babbo - Il Cantinori

In Rossella Rago's debut cookbook Cooking with Nonna, Rossella and her Italian-American grandmother guest chefs take you on a culinary journey through Italy.