Risotto with Nettles: A Memoir with Food by Anna Del Conte

  • Cream and marrons glacés bombe (Bomba di panna e marrons glacés) (page 13)

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    • Categories: Ice cream & frozen desserts; Dessert; Cooking ahead; Italian
    • Ingredients: marrons glacés; dark rum; bittersweet chocolate; whipping cream; egg whites
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  • Food52

    ...isn’t technically a cookbook, per se (at least in the way a publisher would market it). But it’s in the style of those “memoirs with recipes”...

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  • ISBN 10 0099505991
  • ISBN 13 9780099505990
  • Published Sep 06 2010
  • Format Paperback
  • Page Count 336
  • Language English
  • Countries United Kingdom
  • Publisher Vintage Books

Publishers Text

Memoir of the woman who first brought Italian cooking to Britain and fuelled a culinary revolution.

Born in Milan, Anna Del Conte grew up in Italy in a gentler time. When war came to Italy everything changed: her family had to abandon their apartment and the city for the countryside, where the peasants still ate well, but life was dangerous. As a teenager, Anna became used to throwing herself into a ditch as the strafing planes flew over, and was imprisoned, twice. Her story is informed and enlivened by the food and memories of her native land -- from lemon granita to wartime risotto with nettles, from vitello tonnato to horsemeat roll, from pastas to porcini.

Anna arrived in England in 1949 to a culinary wasteland. She married an Englishman and stayed on, and while bringing up her children, she wrote books which inspired a new generation of cooks. This is a memoir of a life seen through food -- each chapter rounded off with mouthwatering recipes.

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