Giuliano Bugialli's Classic Techniques of Italian Cooking

The Fine Art of Italian Cooking is considered the definitive cookbook on Italian cuisine and Giuliano Bugialli is one of the foremost teachers of that countrys revered cooking techniques. Now this incomparable cookbook has been updated expanded and beautifully redesigned. With over 300 recipes including 30 specially researched for this edition and 75 detailed easy-to-follow line drawings this complete revision has made the classic cookbook even better. Bugialli focuses on the extraordinary. range of Tuscan cooking and includes popular recipes from the other regions of Italy The books extensive chapters cover every kind of pasta -- fresh dried stuffed -- breads sauces antipasti meat and fish poultry risotti vegetables and the wonderful range of Italian desserts -- from simple poached fruit to magnificent filled pastries and tortes. Among the dishes are: risotto with spinach; ossobuco with peas; Florentine style polenta with meat sauce; Italian spongecake.