Tuscany: The Beautiful Cookbook [Hardcover]

Lorenza de'Medici (Author), Michael Freeman (Photographer), Peter Johnson (Photographer)

Book Description

Series: Beautiful Cookbook | Publication Date: June 5, 1992

Each title in this award-winning series offers an exquisite region-by-region taste tour filled with culinary specialties and surprises.Included in each large-format volume are gorgeous food and landscape photographs.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Illustrated with a fantastic array of culinary and scenic images, this latest entry in HarperCollins's "beautiful cookbook" series will find a place both on the coffee table and in the kitchen. Chef and cooking instructor De'Medici ( Italy the Beautiful Cookbook ) here focuses on the relatively small region of Tuscany, where a splendid--and vast--tradition in cookery has flourished for centuries, based, she writes, on a simple "love of wine, freshly pressed olives and bread." Well organized by menu course, the cuisine represented here is rich in fragrant soups fortified with crusty country breads and polentas made with chestnut or garbanzo flours. Some of the most interesting recipes include fresh tuna with peas, stuffed zucchini flowers and a squid and beans dish. But, due to the work of Sydney-based Johnson and British photographer Freeman, looking is almost as good as eating. 100,000 first printing; author tour; BOMC selection.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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Each title in this award-winning series offers an exquisite region-by-region taste tour filled with culinary specialties and surprises. Included in each large-format volume are gorgeous food and landscape photographs.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 256 pages
• Publisher: Collins Publishers; 1st edition (June 5, 1992)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0002550326
• ISBN-13: 978-0002550321
• Product Dimensions: 14.1 x 10.2 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #841,628 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

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24 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Gorgeous Coffee Table Book, and the BEST Tuscan Cookbook, December 10, 1999

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This review is from: Tuscany: The Beautiful Cookbook (Hardcover)

When you're an American expat living in Tuscany, your native friends and neighbors generally think that you can't cook worth beans, and your microwave must be your best friend. This is a beautiful book with characteristic food photographs taken in luscious Tuscan villas, or rustic farmhouse terraces, surrounded by wisteria blossoms, and always an inviting glass of white or red wine. It also an excellent cookbook, providing truely authentic recipes and precise instructions, enabling me to cook (almost) as well as my mother-in-law!

20 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Superb!!! Gorgeous!!, November 23, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Tuscany: The Beautiful Cookbook (Hardcover)

If the housever catches fire, this book will be grabbed on my way to save the dog. Fabulous photos and recipes. Great reading pleasure

13 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The BEST !, January 28, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Tuscany: The Beautiful Cookbook (Hardcover)

One is transported. Even if you have never visited Tuscany and will never cook Tuscan, this beautiful book will take you on a trip and fill your senses with the essence of Tuscany. If you have visited Tuscany, it will bring back exquisite memories of this unbelievable region of our world through some of its greatest attractions: eating, drinking, and living well.