Lynne Rossetto Kasper is host of the nationally broadcast radio show The Splendid Table with Lynne Rossetto Kasper, Public Radio's food program and winner of the 1998 James Beard Award For Best National Radio Show on Food Her first book, The Splendid Table Recipes from Emilia-Romagna, the Heartland of Northern Italian Food, is the only winner of both the James Beard and Julia Child/IACP Cookbook-of-the-Year Awards as well as the Julia Child Best First Book Award.
Carol Field author of In Nonna's Kitchen, Celebrating Italy and The
Italian Baker I challenge anyone who picks up The Italian Country
Table to resist Lynne Rossetto Kasper's lively voice, lusty
appreciation and irresistible enthusiasm for all things
Italian.
Fred Plotkin author of Italy for the Gourmet Traveler and Recipes
from Paradise When Lynne Rossetto Kasper writes a recipe, you can
take it to the bank -- and to your heart. Here is cooking at its
most assured and most gratifying. The reader will delight in
discovering an Italy less traveled and very worth knowing.
Harold McGee author of On Food and Cooking With in-depth
explanations of basic techniques and ingredients, this book will
inspire fans of Italian food to explore the delicious possibilities
that lie just off the familiar path.
Jane and Michael Stern authors of Eat Your Way Across the U.S.A.
and Gourmet magazine's "Two for the Road" What pure joy it is to
read Lynne's ode to tomatoes that burst with flavor, and her
rhapsody about the "breads of ingenuity" takes the reader deep into
a culture that is wise as well as delicious.
Mario Batali author of Simple Italian Food and chef-owner of Po and
Babbo, New York City Lynne Rossetto Kasper brings Italian food
folklore to a new level of clarity in her flavor-driven
intellectual pursuit of truth, history, love and tradition in
Italian kitchens. I love this book because I love to cook with my
hands and my nose, but mostly because I love to learn.
Mark Bittman author of How to Cook Everything and the New York
Times's "The Minimalist" I found more great ideas in the first ten
minutes I spent with The Italian Country Table than in all the
other cookbooks I've looked at all year.
Nancy Harmon Jenkins author of Flavors of Puglia and Flavors of
Tuscany This is deeply rural Italy, unknown to most Americans, but
for those like Lynne who have explored it, a truer and more genuine
Italy than the country presented in tourist guides and
brochures.
Paul a Wolfert author of Mediterranean Grains and Greens Lynne
Kasper's The Splendid Table was so good, it was destined to be a
hard act to follow. Well, Lynne has written a fantastic second book
-- enthusiastic narrative, great food and uncomplicated
recipes.
Sally Schneider author of Food & Wine magazine's "Well-Being,"
column In this marvelous new book, Lynne Rossetto Kasper brings
home what I miss most about Italy: a way of life that deeply
nurtures connection with family, friends, the seasons, the land
itself, through food and cooking. Her recipes are inspired in their
simplicity and inventiveness, and are instinctively healthful,
utterly delicious.
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