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Soffritto: A Delicious Ligurian Memoir
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Every Italian cook has a soffritto - the 'starter kit' of olive oil, herbs, garlic and other core ingredients from which a great dish is built. Lucio Galletto was in search of the soffritto of his life.
In 1938, 16-year-old Anna Galletto ran away with Gino Guelfi, the charming gelato maker she'd met at a local dance. In 1943, Anna's brother Mauro escaped from a German prison camp and hunted fascists in the marble mountains of Carrara. In 1951, Mauro and Gino built a shack on a beach next to the ruins of a 2000-year-old Roman city. They started selling fish soup to the artists and writers who were holidaying in the area and became legendary for the way they used the local specialties: parmesan, pecorino, olive oil, pasta, pesto, balsamic vinegar, truffles and prosciutto. In 1975, Mauro's son Lucio arrived for work at the restaurant, fell in love with a beautiful girl sitting in the bar, and ran away with her to Australia.
In a new century, Lucio returns to his birthplace - Lunigiana, in north-west Italy - on a mission to understand the family, the food and the culture that prepared him to create a successful restaurant in a new world 17,000 kilometres away.
Farmers, fishermen, war heroes, winemakers, waiters, hunters, cooks, cousins, aunts, shepherds and scholars told him their secrets and inspired this story. |
Item Specifications...
Pages 246
Dimensions: Length: 1" Width: 7.5" Height: 10"
Weight: 2.52 lbs.
Binding Hardcover
Release Date Sep 1, 2008
ISBN 1741750768
EAN 9781741750768
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 | Helps illuminate an under-appreciated region of Italy Nov 24, 2008 |
| This is wonderful personal history of a Ligurian native who grew up in the restaurant trade and left after falling in love with an Austrailian girl to open an acclaimed restaurant in Sydney. The book is full of personal details and notes on restaurants in the region. In the back there is a largish group of recipes that look excellent. I've eaten some of the foods of the region (my favorite is testaroli with pesto) and think you will enjoy making these recipes. There is also interesting details about the effects of WWII on this region. Recommended! | | | Write your own review about Soffritto: A Delicious Ligurian Memoir
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