Stefano De Luca
Published: 2020-06-30
Total Pages: 289
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The Italian & Sardinian art of simple, healthy and delicious food; my family guide to food and culture. My mother taught me to cook when I was 8 years old in such a simple and effective way. I now proudly present my Sardinian home cooking guide, with its colourful and delicious food flavours combined with photographic landscapes offering 50 years of emotions with 50 selected recipes. I dedicate this book to my mother, a wonderful mother and cook, who had inspired me greatly. My cookbook offers the reader how to cook simple and delicious recipes, through my step-by-step instructions, for all budgets. Remembering my time with mother; it was in a blissful time we had spent together enjoying her food, her home was always uplifting with joy and laughter, embracing tasting flavours and aromas with her exquisite home cooking, simply made with love for food and life itself. I wish to share her humble legacy. As Sardinia becomes a regular international tourist hot spot, I introduce as a native of the Italian island an authentic taste of home-cooked Sardinian, Mediterranean and Italian food. The tourists have always appreciated restaurant food, but this is the first cookbook of Sardinian home cooking. This volume is of 18 chapters: Chapters 1-9 present my mission statement and vision for this book, an introduction about the island, an easy reading survival guide to Italian food terms and daily meals, Sardinian ingredients, including herbs with their qualities and healthy factors, all available in supermarkets, dry and fresh pasta categories, meat and fish production, the healthy food & lifestyle, its natural beauty. Chapter 9-18 present my recipes laid out as in the usual way from starters to desserts with delicious and healthy ingredients, tips and how to make: from the bread starter to sourdough bread loaf and spelt bread; starters like bruschetta and sea food, pasta dishes mixed in a varieties of meat, fish and vegetarian; how to make classic tomato sauces; full on flavour meat and fish dishes baked and grilled; vegetarian side dishes for all tastes; delicious zesty fresh salads and two spongy cakes for dessert. I have created a unique and original book presenting my food and a short story combined with high quality photos all copyrighted by me.