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Lidia Cooks from the Heart of Italy
A Feast of 175 Regional Recipes
Written by Lidia Matticchio Bastianich and Tanya Bastianich Manuali

Format: eBook, 432 pages
On Sale: October 20, 2009
Price: $35.00

In this inspiring new book, Lidia Bastianich awakens in us a new respect for food and for the people who produce it in the little-known parts of Italy that she explores. All of the recipes reflect the regions from which they spring, and in translating them to our home kitchens, Lidia... Read more >

Lidia Cooks from the Heart of Italy
A Feast of 175 Regional Recipes
Written by Lidia Matticchio Bastianich and Tanya Bastianich Manuali

Format: Hardcover, 432 pages
On Sale: October 20, 2009
Price: $35.00

In this inspiring new book, Lidia Bastianich awakens in us a new respect for food and for the people who produce it in the little-known parts of Italy that she explores. All of the recipes reflect the regions from which they spring, and in translating them to our home kitchens, Lidia... Read more >

The Southern Italian Table
Authentic Tastes from Traditional Kitchens
Written by Arthur Schwartz

Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: October 20, 2009
Price: $32.50

Southern Italian food—from bruschetta and tomato sauce to spaghetti and meatballs—is the most talked about and home cooked food in America. And the area's sleepy hill towns and rocky coastlines have become "it" destinations for in-the-know foodies and travelers from all over the world.

For more than a decade, award-winning cookbook author... Read more >

Slow: Life in a Tuscan Town

Written by Douglas Gayeton
Preface by Carlo Petrini
Introduction by Alice Waters

Format: Hardcover, 176 pages
On Sale: September 29, 2009
Price: $50.00

SLOW: Life in a Tuscan Town is an unprecedented photographic personal journey into the heart of hidden Tuscany that celebrates the principles that define the Slow Food movement and pays tribute to the region’s kaleidoscope of vibrant characters, whose shared culture revolves around the everyday pleasure of growing, preparing, and eating... Read more >

100 Ways to Be Pasta
Perfect Pasta Recipes from Gangivecchio
Written by Wanda Tornabene and Giovanna Tornabene

Format: eBook, 208 pages
On Sale: June 24, 2009
Price: $24.95

For us, pasta is more than just a food. It is part of our histories. It is a good friend, a member of the family. It is something we love . . . When Italians offer a plate of pasta to friends or strangers, we are opening the doors of our... Read more >

Food Wine Rome

Written by David Downie
Photographed by Alison Harris

Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: April 7, 2009
Price: $24.95

Food Wine Rome is a tightly focused guidebook and traveler’s companion to the culinary delights of Rome. For each neighborhood, listings are in three categories: 1) dining: restaurants, trattorie, osterie; 2) gourmet shopping: bakeries, markets, salami makers, cheesemongers, and more; 3) wine: shops and wine bars. A dozen or more sidebars... Read more >

A Culinary Traveller in Tuscany
Exploring and Eating Off the Beaten Track
Written by Beth Elon

Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: March 24, 2009
Price: $17.95

Each of the ten itineraries in this cookbook/guidebook takes readers through parts of Tuscany that still remain largely undiscovered and into the kitchens of more than fifty superb but little-known restaurants specializing in regional cuisine–those that are for the most part overlooked by tourists and known only to the locals. Each... Read more >

A Taste of Southern Italy
Delicious Recipes and a Dash of Culture
Written by Marlena de Blasi

Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: March 11, 2009
Price: $25.95

“It has always been true for me that to know a place, I must first know how it eats and drinks. Everything unravels at the table.”
–Marlena de Blasi


Marlena de Blasi’s lifelong affair with cooking began at age nine on a beach along the coast of southern Italy, where she met... Read more >

Osteria
Hearty Italian Fare from Rick Tramonto's Kitchen
Written by Rick Tramonto and Mary Goodbody

Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
On Sale: October 14, 2008
Price: $35.00

Award-winning chef Rick Tramonto shows home cooks how to recreate the simple, flavorful Italian dishes he serves at his wildly popular Osteria di Tramonto.

Osteria means “tavern” in Italian. It is always a casual place, usually family-owned, where simple country cooking is served to accompany the local wine. In 2006, acclaimed chef...

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Osteria
Hearty Italian Fare from Rick Tramonto's Kitchen
Written by Rick Tramonto and Mary Goodbody

Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: October 14, 2008
Price: $35.00

Award-winning chef Rick Tramonto shows home cooks how to recreate the simple, flavorful Italian dishes he serves at his wildly popular Osteria di Tramonto.

Osteria means “tavern” in Italian. It is always a casual place, usually family-owned, where simple country cooking is served to accompany the local wine. In 2006, acclaimed chef... Read more >

II Viaggio Di Vetri
A Culinary Journey
Written by Marc Vetri and David Joachim
Photographed by Douglas Takeshi Wolfe

Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: October 1, 2008
Price: $40.00

In 1993, Marc Vetri boarded a plane with a note of introduction in one pocket and a few hundred dollars in the other. He landed in Bergamo, in northern Italy, where he spent the next eighteen months immersed in the soulful cooking and great-hearted hospitality of some of the region’s top... Read more >

Giada's Kitchen
New Italian Favorites
Written by Giada De Laurentiis

Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: September 30, 2008
Price: $32.50

She’s taught us every facet of Italian cooking—from traditional and regional to seasonal and contemporary. She even made us fall in love with pasta again by opening us up to lighter, healthier versions that don’t weigh us down. Now the Food Network star and bestselling author of Everyday Pasta, Giada De... Read more >

A16
Food + Wine
Written by Nate Appleman and Shelley Lindgren
Photographed by Ed Anderson

Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
On Sale: September 1, 2008
Price: $35.00

A cookbook and wine guide celebrating the traditions of southern Italy, from the country's top southern Italian restaurant, in San Francisco.

At San Francisco's acclaimed A16 restaurant (named for the highway that cuts across southern Italy), diners pack the house for chef Nate Appleman's house-cured salumi, textbook Naples-style pizzas, and gutsy slow-cooked... Read more >

Panini

Written by Carlo Middione
Photographed by Ed Anderson

Format: Hardcover, 112 pages
On Sale: July 1, 2008
Price: $14.95

Melted fontina cheese, salty pancetta, crispy grilled ciabatta bread--European sensibility meets comfort food in the panino. PANINI celebrates the original Italian sandwich with 50 recipes, including grilled, not-grilled, and open-faced creations. Home cooks will find instructions for making their own bread and building traditional panini using a variety of cheeses, cured... Read more >

Gelato!
Italian Ice Creams, Sorbetti, and Granite
Written by Pamela Sheldon Johns
Produced by Jennifer Barry Design
Photographed by Joyce Oudkerk Pool

Format: Trade Paperback, 112 pages
On Sale: May 1, 2008
Price: $14.95

The perfect treat for a hot summer day, homemade gelato and its fruit-based cousins, sorbetti and granite, are easy to make and richer than ordinary ice creams and sherbets, yet less fattening. Pamela Sheldon Johns provides 50 recipes for gelato and other icy desserts, along with tasty accompaniments. Including sumptuous ice... Read more >

My Italian Garden
More than 125 Seasonal Recipes from a Garden Inspired by Italy
Written by Viana La Place

Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: May 8, 2007
Price: $19.95

Viana La Place was raised on stories of family gardens told by parents who brought their love of the Mediterranean landscape with them from Italy when they settled in California. Viana herself, after living on and off in Italy for several years, made an Italian garden of her own behind her...

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Lidia's Italy
140 simple and delicious recipes from the ten places in Italy Lidia loves most
Written by Lidia Matticchio Bastianich and Tanya Bastianich Manuali

Format: Hardcover, 384 pages
On Sale: April 10, 2007
Price: $35.00

In this exciting new book the incomparable Lidia takes us on a gastronomic journey—from Piemonte to Puglia—exploring ten different regions that have informed her cooking and helped to make her the fabulous cook that she is today. In addition, her daughter Tanya, an art historian, guides us to some of the nearby... Read more >

Everyday Pasta

Written by Giada De Laurentiis

Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: April 3, 2007
Price: $32.50

For New York Times bestselling author Giada De Laurentiis, pasta has always been one of the great pleasures of the table: it’s healthy and delicious; it can be light and delicate or rich and hearty; it’s readily available and easy to prepare--everything you want in a meal. And nothing satisfies a... Read more >

A Culinary Traveller in Tuscany

Written by Beth Elon

Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: May 16, 2006
Price: $24.95

Just when we thought we knew everything there was to know about Tuscany, along comes Beth Elon–cookbook writer and 30 year resident of a small village at the foot of the Appenines–who takes us along the back roads and through the ancient hill towns to remote restaurants that are for the... Read more >

Giada's Family Dinners

Written by Giada De Laurentiis

Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: April 4, 2006
Price: $32.50

In her New York Times bestseller Everyday Italian, Giada De Laurentiis introduced us to the simple, fresh flavors of her native Italian cuisine. Now, America’s favorite Italian cook is back with a new batch of simple, delicious recipes geared toward family meals—Italian style.

These unpretentious and delicious meals are at the... Read more >

Scott Conant's New Italian Cooking

Written by Scott Conant and Joanne McAllister Smart

Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: October 25, 2005
Price: $35.00

The award-winning chef of two of New York’s most celebrated restaurants presents his fresh, vibrant approach to Italian cooking with recipes that reveal the secrets behind his most acclaimed dishes.

Scott Conant, chef-owner of L’Impero and Alto restaurants in Manhattan, has been thrilling diners and impressing critics since L’Impero opened in 2003... Read more >

Cooking with My Sisters
One Hundred Years of Family Recipes, from Bari to Big Stone Gap
Written by Adriana Trigiani, Mary Trigiani, Lucia Anna Trigiani, Antonia Trigiani and Francesca Trigiani

Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: October 11, 2005
Price: $17.95

For the Trigianis, cooking has always been a family affair–and the kitchen was the bustling center of their home, where folks gathered around the table for good food, good conversation, and the occasional eruption. Example: Being thrown out of the kitchen because one’s Easter bread kneading technique isn’t up to par... Read more >

100 Ways to Be Pasta
Perfect Pasta Recipes from Gangivecchio
Written by Wanda Tornabene, Giovanna Tornabene and Carolynn Carreņo

Format: Hardcover, 208 pages
On Sale: September 20, 2005
Price: $24.95

For us, pasta is more than just a food. It is part of our histories. It is a good friend, a member of the family. It is something we love . . . When Italians offer a plate of pasta to friends or strangers, we are opening the doors of our... Read more >

The Italian Grill
Fresh Ideas to Fire Up Your Outdoor Cooking
Written by Micol Negrin

Format: Hardcover, 192 pages
On Sale: May 10, 2005
Price: $25.00

Bored with the same old hamburgers or hot dogs?

How about spicy brine-salted chicken, garlic-studded pork loin, or rosemary-rubbed rib-eye steak? In The Italian Grill, you’ll learn how to grill Italian style, with simple ingredients, no-fuss techniques, and fresh, satisfying flavors. From appetizers through desserts, you’ll see how easy it is... Read more >

Everyday Italian
125 Simple and Delicious Recipes
Written by Giada De Laurentiis

Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: February 22, 2005
Price: $35.00

In her hit Food Network show Everyday Italian, Giada De Laurentiis shows you how to cook delicious, beautiful food in a flash. And here, in her long-awaited first book, she does the same—helps you put a fabulous dinner on the table tonight, for friends or just for the kids, with a... Read more >