Thanks, that is a really interesting post and list of books. Ada Boni is my desert island cookbook! I agree there are also some fantastically useful videos which just open up a hidden world of culinary traditions - Helen (from Bundanoon, Australia).
oh really? so we share a common love for Ada Boni! I find her use of butter quite liberal (I remember in one recipe she fries pork sausages in butter!), but you can really find everything you might want to cook from the Italian heritage there!
What a great inside look. I love your collection of cookbooks because I, too, have an array of them that I truly use and consult on many projects! They fill a bookcase in my living room with barely enough space for a couple of pothos clippings and a pair of bookends.
Love to see the books that have inspired you! I would love to get my hands on Cucina Povera and spend extra attention on the recipes from Abruzzo - that is the region where my husband’s family is from! His Nanie immigrated from a tiny walled town in the province when she was a young teenager, and has only been back a time or two. I would love to ask her if she recognizes these recipes! ❤️
Thanks so much for this post and news of the book, but most of all for illuminating bibliography, Giulia. So happy to see you mention Gillian Riley's Oxford Companion to Italian Food: as an art as well as culinary historian , much of her work was with the National Garllery in London. She was a regular (and enthusiastically-anticipated) paper-presenter at The Oxford Symposium on Food & Cookery (happens once a year at St. Catherine's College, Oxford).
The Oxford Companion to Italian Food is one of my most favourite books, such a fascinating read! I attended The Oxford Symposium on Food & Cookery in 2014 with my friend Regula, and I remember we met briefly one morning, but I must have been too shy to talk!
Fascinating, thank you
Thank you Mark! When I read a book I love to search for the bibliography, so I thought it would have been interesting to share it here
Thanks, that is a really interesting post and list of books. Ada Boni is my desert island cookbook! I agree there are also some fantastically useful videos which just open up a hidden world of culinary traditions - Helen (from Bundanoon, Australia).
oh really? so we share a common love for Ada Boni! I find her use of butter quite liberal (I remember in one recipe she fries pork sausages in butter!), but you can really find everything you might want to cook from the Italian heritage there!
What a great inside look. I love your collection of cookbooks because I, too, have an array of them that I truly use and consult on many projects! They fill a bookcase in my living room with barely enough space for a couple of pothos clippings and a pair of bookends.
Love to see the books that have inspired you! I would love to get my hands on Cucina Povera and spend extra attention on the recipes from Abruzzo - that is the region where my husband’s family is from! His Nanie immigrated from a tiny walled town in the province when she was a young teenager, and has only been back a time or two. I would love to ask her if she recognizes these recipes! ❤️
I loved learning about recipe from Abruzzo with my friend Giulia and her mother in law, I felt part of the family!
I am so excited for Cucina Povera to arrive!
now publication day is really getting closer!
Just a note to say my public library has the book on pre-order where it will reach many readers. I will be one of the first! Thank you.
oh thank you so much for letting me know! so exciting!
Thanks so much for this post and news of the book, but most of all for illuminating bibliography, Giulia. So happy to see you mention Gillian Riley's Oxford Companion to Italian Food: as an art as well as culinary historian , much of her work was with the National Garllery in London. She was a regular (and enthusiastically-anticipated) paper-presenter at The Oxford Symposium on Food & Cookery (happens once a year at St. Catherine's College, Oxford).
The Oxford Companion to Italian Food is one of my most favourite books, such a fascinating read! I attended The Oxford Symposium on Food & Cookery in 2014 with my friend Regula, and I remember we met briefly one morning, but I must have been too shy to talk!
Next time no need to be too shy!