| Description |
1 online resource (x, 211 pages) : color illustrations |
|
text file rda |
| Summary |
An authentic guide to the festive, mouthwatering sweets of Southern Italy, including regional specialties that are virtually unknown in this country as well as variations on more popular desserts such as cannoli, biscotti, and gelato. As a follow-up to her acclaimed My Calabria, Rosetta Costantino collects 75 favorite desserts from her Southern Italian homeland, including the regions of Basilicata, Calabria, Campania, Puglia, and Sicily. These areas have a history of rich traditions and tasty, beautiful desserts, many of them tied to holidays and festivals. For example, in the Cosenza region of Calabria, Christmas means plates piled with grispelle (warm fritters drizzled with local honey) and pitta 'mpigliata (pastries filled with walnuts, raisins, and cinnamon). For the feast of Carnevale, Southern Italians celebrate with bugie("liars")--sweet fried dough dusted in powdered sugar, meant to tattle on those who sneak off with them by leaving a wispy trail of sugar. With fail-proof recipes and information on the desserts' cultural origins and context, Costantino illuminates the previously unexplored confectionary traditions of this enchanting region. |
|
Presents a collection of seventy-five recipes for desserts organized by five regions of southern Italy, with a short history of Italian dessert cooking and advice on ingredients and cooking equipment. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (page 205) and index. |
| System Details |
Requires Boundless App. |
| Subject |
Desserts.
|
|
Cooking, Italian -- Southern style.
|
|
Cooking, Italian -- Southern style. |
|
Desserts. |
| Genre |
Cookbooks.
|
|
Electronic books. |
|
Cookbooks.
|
| Added Author |
Schacht, Jennie, author.
|
|
Remington, Sara, photographer.
|
| Other Form: |
Electronic reproduction of (manifestation): Costantino, Rosetta. Southern Italian desserts Berkeley : Ten Speed Press, 2013 9781607744023 (DLC) 2012046952 (OCoLC)829644494 |
| ISBN |
9781607744030 : $65.00 |
|
1607744031 : $65.00 |
|
More Resources