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Regional italian cookbook: recipes from the silver spoon

Imagine a map of Italy laid flat on a kitchen table. Each region is not merely a place, but a voice — whispering, guiding, sometimes arguing — through recipes handed down like family secrets. The Regional Italian Cookbook: Recipes from The Silver Spoon is less a book than a journey: a wandering through twenty regions, each with its own rhythm of flavours, its own dialect of ingredients.

From the Alpine north, where molten cheese and golden saffron risotto speak of rivers and mountains, to the sun-struck south, where citrus trees and olive groves glow like sentences written in light, this book traces the country’s culinary language. Central Italy, steady and self-assured, offers the comfort of Ribollita and robust Roman pasta; Sicily, ever the storyteller, mixes influences like spices in a market stall.

With 160 recipes accompanied by evocative prose and luminous photography, this volume doesn’t simply teach you to cook. Each chapter opens a new landscape, a new chapter of Italy itself, inviting you to bring its flavours home.

Part of the iconic series of Silver Spoon, the Holy book of Italian home cooking.