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A Kitchen in Italy: A Year of Family Meals and Celebrations from Our Home - Hardcover

Thorisson, Mimi

 
9780593235218: A Kitchen in Italy: A Year of Family Meals and Celebrations from Our Home
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0593235215 ISBN 13: 9780593235218
Verlag: Random House LLC US, 2025

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Discover the rich culinary treasures of Italian cuisine in this personal, transportive collection of 100 simple yet elegant recipes from the award-winning author of Old World Italian

Mimi Thorisson first captivated readers with A Kitchen in France, which displayed her family’s idyllic lifestyle in the French countryside and the delectable cuisine of France. Now that she has found a true home in Italy, Mimi presents a new Italian cookbook that shares the sumptuous meals she cooks and eats in her Italian kitchen. The 100 recipes in A Kitchen in Italy are Mimi's beloved, family-approved favorites—the staple dishes, perfected over several years of living in Italy, that she returns to again and again.

Allow Mimi to transport you to Italy with delectable and accessible meals that celebrate the seasons. In the spring, enjoy Mimi’s Risi e Bisi, a brothy, risotto-like Venetian dish served when peas are in season. There’s no better way to use up abundant summer zucchini than in Spaghetti alla Nerano, a dish that encapsulates the beautiful simplicity of Italian cooking. In the fall, turn to a comforting Baked Tagliolini with Prosciutto, a luxurious yet uncomplicated baked pasta beloved by Mimi’s kids. When mandarins and clementines are at their peak in December, pair them with White Chocolate Chip and Pistachio Cookies, made with the very best Sicilian pistachios, for a terrific afternoon snack. 

With recipes spanning antipasti, primi, secondi, and dolci, you can tuck into a rustic countryside dish on a weeknight or build a special occasion menu to delight your friends. Featuring 150 photographs shot by Mimi's husband, Oddur Thorisson, A Kitchen in Italy brings Mimi’s Italian secrets to your dinner table.

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Mimi Thorisson is a French cook and writer living with her family in Turin, Italy. She is the author of A Kitchen in France, French Country Cooking, and Old World Italian.

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Introduction

In the fall of 2013, I was putting the final touches on my first cookbook, A Kitchen in France. It was a huge surprise to find myself, night after night, in that rustic country kitchen in a remote part of France, fine-tuning recipes. I had grown up in bustling Hong Kong, and I had studied finance, so surely my fate was to live in a city and work in an office. And dogs were not exactly part of my plans either, a cat perhaps. Yet here they were, several of them sleeping under the table.

Plus a new child every year, it seemed; an Icelandic husband; and a life so wholly dedicated to food that spring/summer collection now meant peas, asparagus, and strawberries rather than shorter hemlines, linens, and flowery prints.

We had left Paris for a bucolic existence in what many describe as a cul-de-sac of France. They said we were crazy, but I loved it from the very start. The conversation at lunch was always the same: What should we do for dinner? When I was growing up, food was very important to me, but my culinary adventure, one I m still on, started for real in that farmhouse, cooking for my family. I began sharing my experience on a little blog called Manger (that s what people did in those days), and before I knew it, as luck would have it, I was invited to write a cookbook. Another surreal and unexpected twist; sometimes life just happens. The book was an earnest documentation of what it felt like to live in the French countryside, go to markets every day, and cook with seasonal and mostly very local ingredients. It was the life we led and the meals we had together, all photographed by my husband in our home. No sets, no props, no stylist. It was our life, on a page.

A second book, French Country Cooking, documented our next chapter in the French countryside, a new home with two kitchens and half the rooms devoted to cooking. It wasn t a restaurant, but with so many children and friends at our table, you could say we were fully booked every night.

We left that life as gently as we fell into it. We wanted to live in Italy, and a third book (or maybe that s just an excuse) opened the door. In Old World Italian, I wanted to explore the extraordinary diversity of Italian cuisine, travel the regions, meet locals, and seek advice.

I wanted to find my cooking legs in a new territory, build a new home. I wanted to cook like an Italian.

These days I find myself sitting in a fairly rustic kitchen in Italy, a few dogs still under the table. It s a new kitchen in a new apartment here in Torino, where we have now lived for over six years. It s not necessarily that we ve come full circle, but writing this book feels in many ways what is often called back to basics, or a return to my culinary roots. What has always driven me as a home cook is feeding my family, and sometimes dazzling them, when the gods of succulence smile upon me. To host friends, to conjure up simple feasts (and feasts can be simple, especially in Italy, where nothing is simple but the food).

In A Kitchen in France, I wanted to share my life and communicate what it s like to take a step back from the roar of the city, to live a simplified life of reduced complications but often heightened pleasures. A life where Mommy bringing home foraged mushrooms is the highlight of the day or when someone cycles to the chicken farm to fetch those delicious sausages we all loved so much.

In this book, I m back in a city, though Torino does have the charm of a much smaller town and a closeness to nature I have never experienced in a city this size. I hope to demonstrate that you don t have to leave it all behind for a better quality of life. Life is what you make it. What we eat is important. Time spent with family is even more importan

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Verlag
Random House LLC US
Erscheinungsdatum
2025
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0593235215
ISBN 13 
9780593235218
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
288
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