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Books: Cooking by Cuisine -> Cooking Italian
Recipes from Paradise : Life and Food on the Italian Riviera
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by:
Plotkin, Fred
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Publisher:
Little, Brown
Published: October 12, 1997
ISBN: 0316710717
Format:Hardcover
Pages:496
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Book Description
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Fred Plotkin brings together passion and scholarship, poetry, history, and vivid images of Liguria in Recipes from Paradise, a meticulous and loving record of the region known as the Italian Riviera. Literate and richly written, even florid
at times, it documents the interplay of land and sea elemental to Ligurian life in fascinating detail. The alluring, authentic recipes include Stuffed Basil Leaves, Chestnut Gnocchi, and Polenta Incatenata, made with beans, cabbage, and potatoes.
Ingredient lists give measures by weight (ounces), volume (cups), and grams, and oven temperatures in Fahrenheit and Centigrade. Some may find this thoroughness distracting, but it makes the book useful to anyone anywhere. More challenging than the
careful measurements is the windy narrative form Plotkin employs in the steps for making the dishes; with so many words to wade through, the style may make finding your place difficult. Italophiles and cookbook literati, however, will not care about
Plotkin's verbosity as they are blissfully transported and enlightened by the recipes and descriptions.
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