A companion to the PBS series "The Chefs of Cucina Amore" contains over one-hundred recipes from five of the show's most popular chefs

The launch of Nick Stellino's "Cucina Amore" on public television stations marked the debut of a new kind of television chef and a new style of cooking show. The authentic trattoria setting and casual, relaxed atmosphere allow viewers to feel as if they are actually dining with their host while being entertained with stories about his beloved grandmother, Nonna Maria, his perfectionist father, Don Vincenzo, his mother, Massimilliana, and his brother and partner-in-mischief, Mario--all the while learning how to re-create the authentic Italian dishes he was taught to make at home. This companion cookbook, "Cucina Amore, brings you all the warmth, love, and culinary delights that have made Nick Stellino so successful. Here you will find one hundred simple and delicious recipes--ranging from Caponata to Wild Mushroom Salad, Ossobuco to Country Style Roasted Potatoes, and Sicilian Cheesecake to Tiramisu--along with all of Nick's wonderful family memories, and the secrets he has learned both at home and as a professional chef to make the cooking both simple and foolproof. And for the first time in any cookbook, we have included a CD of delightful Italian dinner music to inspire the cook's creativity and enhance the diners' pleasure. For Nick Stellino, cooking for others is a joy and a celebration, and with this music he is inviting all home chefs, their families, and their guests to join in the festivities. With the versatility and perennial popularity of Italian food, and the growing awareness of the Mediterranean diet as a healthy way of eating, "Cucina Amore is a cookbook you will turn to again and again.

Recipes from the kitchens and restaurants of Italy's new culinary masters, who combine an innate sixth sense for quintessentially Italian flavor with a contemporary approach, defining an exciting new gastronomy. Everybody loves Italian food. It is among the most talked about, written about, and globally popular. But as travelers have sought out culinary experiences in off-the-beaten-path destinations elsewhere in the world, in Italy even consummate foodies eat the same postcard versions of traditional dishes, occasionally making forays into a handful of fine-dining favorites. Yet by far the country's most interesting cuisine is to be found outside of well-trodden establishments, and it's as varied and full of personality as it is delicious. This generation of chefs has come a long way from their nonna's kitchen: they approach tradition with a respectful yet emancipated perspective; they rethink the formats of the Italian restaurant; they are rediscovering foraging and farming; they introduce serious cocktail programs. This book covers thirty-two chefs and restaurateurs who are reinterpreting the "greatest hits" of Italian dining: from trattorias to fine dining, from aperitivo to pizzerias. Laura Lazzaroni takes her readers on a visual north-to-south tour of this new cucina italiana, stopping at restaurants, inns, farms, and pop-ups all across the country, showing in stories and recipes the multitude of approaches, influences, and ingredients that compose this movement, which is paving the way for the country's gastronomic rebirth.

A companion to the PBS series "Cucina Amore" offers more than one hundred recipes, as well as tips, techniques, and instructions for making the basic sauces and stocks essential to Italian cooking.

Damian and Johnny return with a colorful volume of hearty fare of Tuscan derivation. From the antipasti to dolci, these chefs offer intensely flavored dishes from that fabled west-central Italian region crowned by Florence.

As Marisa Iocco prepared her first Bolognese in a professional kitchen-a little too perfunctorily for the elder-statesman chef de cuisine nearby-he impulsively slapped her hand."Cooking is not done by rote. Cooking is like music. Ingredients must sing."From that moment, Iocco opened her ears and heart and started listening more closely...understanding that measures matter in both music and food. A chef was born. That was one of many experiences that shaped Iocco into one of this country's most well known (and rare) native Italian female executive chefs. Every Menu Is A Love Story (Ecco Perché Amore) is a recipe-enhanced memoir that begins in a small town in Italy's Abruzzo region where food soothed her father's absence and her mother's death, and crosses an ocean to where Iocco was freed to pursue (and achieve) national success.With a fine arts education, her mamma's food instincts and a few American phrases, Iocco landed in Boston in 1988 as the city began acquiring a palate. There, she faced and overcame the "old boys" bastion of professional kitchens-opening four restaurants, consulting for many more-by serving the regional Italian cooking of her youth and by elevating traditional (but tired) Italian-American dishes. Equal parts memoir, cookbook and Boston ode, Every Menu Is A Love Story chapters include recipes reflecting the imprint of Iocco's Italian and Italian-American dishes on her life. Exulting in every word, bite and note, to Iocco, every menu commands emotional commitment. Every menu is a love story. Ecco perché amore.

LA-based Italian food writer Ale Gambini presents traditional Milanese and Northern Italian dishes, handed down from her beloved Nonna Fernanda. Nearly a century of authentic Italian recipes, accurately explained step by step, prepared using only the freshest, finest and healthiest ingredients that are native to the region of Lombardy and Northern Italy in general. This book includes the staples of the Milanese cuisine: Milanese risotto, veal Ossobuco, milk cardoon, veal Milanese and Panettone. Buon Appetito!