Return to Tuscany: Recipes from a Tuscan Cookery School at Chef2Chef

Giancarlo and Katie Caldesi, the team behind two of London’s most popular Tuscan restaurants, decided to relocate to Tuscany for a few months to rediscover Giancarlo’s culinary roots and run a series of courses in traditional Tuscan cooking. Return to Tuscany is a delightful record of their sojourn. Each chapter begins with a lesson, echoing the different stages of their cooking course, guiding you through the basic techniques of making pasta, assembling an antipasti platter, cooking meat on an open fire, and baking your own focaccia. In 80 regional recipes—from Jam Crostata and Pici with Arrabiata Sauce to Chicken with Cinnamon and Lemon—Giancarlo and Katie reveal methods passed down through generations of the Caldesi family.

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Return to Tuscany: Recipes from a Tuscan Cookery School comes from the husband/wife team behind two Italian restaurants and a cookery school in London. As such it offers up a different format than most cookbooks, beginning each chapter with a lesson based on their cookery course and pairing an overview of basic cooking techniques with regional recipes. Color photos throughout focus on both step-by-step techniques and pictures of food and finished dishes, including location shots, and provide a format that beginners, in particular, will welcome.Diane C. DonovanCalifornia Bookwatch  Comment |   (Report this)