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Frankie Dettori's Italian Family Cookbook by: Frankie Dettori, Marco Pierre White, with Alexandra Antonioni List Price: £20.00 City Travel Guides Price: £13.00 You Save: £7.00 (35%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Hardcover Brand: Books Dewey Decimal Number: 641.5945 EAN: 9780007244263 ISBN: 0007244266 Label: HarperCollins Entertainment Manufacturer: HarperCollins Entertainment Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 240 Publication Date: October 01, 2007 Publisher: HarperCollins Entertainment Studio: HarperCollins Entertainment Sales Rank: 88262 Related Items:
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Editorial Review: Product Description: A sumptuous collection of mouth-watering recipes, heart-warming anecdotes and vibrant photography that bring the warmth of Italy to your kitchen table. Blending the character of Frankie Dettori's family's traditional Italian home cooking and the sophistication of Marco Pierre White's world-famous kitchens, this is a feast for all the senses. Good food, good wine, good company, good weather ! all these are essential ingredients for a slice of the Italian life. Simple, heart-warming and delicious. Nothing beats Frankie and Marco's good old-fashioned Italian recipes - just as their mammas used to make them. Synopsis: A sumptuous collection of mouth-watering recipes, heart-warming anecdotes and vibrant photography that bring the warmth of Italy to your kitchen table. Blending the character of Frankie Dettori's family's traditional Italian home cooking and the sophistication of Marco Pierre White's world-famous kitchens, this is a feast for all the senses. Good food, good wine, good company, good weather ! all these are essential ingredients for a slice of the Italian life. Frankie Dettori, everyone's favourite Italian export, is as well known for his love of life as his success on the course. With a chain of family-orientated restaurants under their belts, Michelin-stared chief Marco Pierre White and Frankie Dettori have teamed up once again to transport their special mix of delicious decadence and simple, down-to-earth home cooking. Filled with sumptuous photographs of Frankie's family and the surroundings in which he grew up, as well as charming personal anecdotes, family recipes and sumptuous photographs, 'Frankie Detorri's Italian Family Cookbook' brings you the all best recipes from the restaurant as well as Dettori family favourites and Italian kitchen secrets.Blending mouth-watering recipes, tips and anecdotes, and photographs that exude the warmth and vibrancy of true Italian dining, this is more than simply a recipe book -- it's a slice of real Italian home cooking just like mama used to make. From the Publisher: lavishly illustrated and with over 100 recipes, this intimate cookbook will bring you together time and time again. Blending mouth-watering recipes, tips and anecdotes, and photographs that exude the warmth and vibrancy of true Italian dining, this is more than simply a recipe book - it's a slice of real Italian home cooking just like mama used to make. About the Author: Frankie Dettori, the most successful jockey the flat has ever seen, comes from a long line of Italian cooking. Frankie, his wife and their 4 young children divide their time between Newmarket and Sardinia. Marco Pierre White is an internationally renowned chef and father of 3. He is one of Britain's top restauranteurs and the driving force behind Frankie's, the group of Italian family-friendly restaurants he owns with Frankie. Marco is the youngest person in the world to be awarded three Michelin stars. Excerpted from Frankie Dettori's Italian Family Cookbook by Frankie Dettori, Marco Pierre White, with Alexandra Antonioni. Copyright © 2007. Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.: Exclusive Amazon recipe: POLLO ARROSTO IN CASSERUOLA Pot roasted chicken with herbs Frankie says "This dish reminds me of hot summer Sundays spent on my grandparents' farm. We kids would be frogmarched to the local village church while my grandmother got to stay home and cook - methinks she got the better deal! The smell of chicken, rosemary and garlic was heavenly and filled the house with a sense of well-being. My grandfather would kill the chicken the night before as he felt it was morally wrong to do so on a Sunday!" Ingredients: 1 large (approx 2 kg) organic chicken, cut into 6-8 pieces 6 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil 3 garlic cloves, peeled and roughly chopped 2 small onions, quartered 3 sprigs of fresh rosemary 2 bay leaves 1 sprig of fresh thyme 200 ml dry white wine salt and freshly ground black pepper Wash and pat the chicken dry, inside and out. Trim off any excess fat, keeping the skin on. Over a low heat, warm the olive oil in a large heavy-bottomed saucepan, add the garlic and onion and fry for a few minutes to flavour the oil. Add the chicken and brown on both sides, starting skin-side down. Add the rosemary, bay leaves, thyme and white wine, and boil rapidly for a couple of minutes until the alcohol has evaporated. Lower the heat, cover with a tight-fitting lid and cook for 30 minutes, checking occasionally to ensure the chicken is well basted. The wine and juices from the bird should form a wonderfully aromatic gravy. To serve, remove any woody sprigs of herbs, place the chicken pieces on a large serving plate and top with the juices from the meat. Serves: 4 Preparation time: 5 minutes Cooking time: 45 minutes Customer Reviews
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 Rating: - 100+ recipesfrom a dynamic Italian best friend duo:- jockey, Frankie Dettori and top chef, Marco PIerre White! 'Here they share their favourite recipes that they have been cooking at home for years, handed down from generation to generation..........' From Marco's introduction:- ...'If this book ends up covered in flour and sticky finger prints and with the odd note in the margin, then and only then will you have realised its true value.' From the back cover:- 'Simple, heart-warming and delicious. Nothing beats Frankie and Marco's good old-fashioned Italian recipes - just as their mammas use to make them.' 224 super high quality shiny pages split over 9 main chapters:- ... Read More: Rating: - Frankie Dettori's Italian Family CookbookI am astonished this book isn't in the top 100 for Christmas because it is a gorgeous book The recipes are simple and superb, the photography is beautiful I found recipes my Italian Grandmother made and I can thoroughly recommend it to anyone looking for an authentic Italian cook book Marco Peirre White also having an Italian backgorund helps Rating: - Mmmmm - and that's just the pictures!With the proviso that I have yet to actually try any of the recipies, this book is a winner. From page one to the end, the photos alone are scrumptious. And I don't just mean the food either - I've been a Frankie fan for years now and some of the shots of him with his lovely children are a delight. I hope this book is a brilliant success and would urge you all to buy it, especially if you like Italy and Italian food. PS It's a pity perhaps that a couple of the photo plates of Frankie appear to have been reversed (scar, ring and watch) - pages 59 and 181? |
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