Buon Ricordo: How to Make Your Home a Great Restaurant

Winner of the 2010 Le Cordon Bleu World Food Media Awards for Best Hard Cover Recipe Book, a sumptuous and mouthwatering collection of easy-to-cook Italian recipes designed for everyday livingHere, Armando Percuoco removes the mystique from restaurant food, to make cooks feel as comfortable in their own kitchens as he feels in the kitchen of Buon Ricordo. He demonstrates how to cook great Italian food in many different ways, and how different techniques can bring out different qualities in them. Recipes include dishes such as Quattro Piccole Paste (Four Little Pastas), Grigliata Mista di Mare (Seafood Barbecue), Fichi Biondi (Baked Figs with Gorgonzola Sauce), Orata in Crosta di Pane (Whole Snapper in Pizza Dough), and Pesche Ripiene (Poached Peaches). A big, bold, and beautiful volume, this gorgeous cookbook emphasizes freshness, simplicity, generosity, imagination. Includes dual measurements.