Fabio's 30-Minute Italian
Over 100 Fabulous, Quick and Easy Recipes
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- $16.99
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- $16.99
Publisher Description
“In this amazing book, Fabio shows you how to make delicious Italian dishes easily and quickly! It’s the next best thing to having him in your kitchen.” —Antonia Lofaso, Chef and Restaurateur of Scopa Italian Roots, The Local Peasant, Sycamore Tavern and Black Market Liquor Bar
Dinner doesn’t have to be daunting. In half an hour or less you can cook up an Italian meal at home like a professional chef. In this case, just like Top Chef star Fabio Viviani. Infused with his warmth and humor, this book brings Fabio into your kitchen.
If Fresh Fettuccini with Manila Clams and Spicy Sausages and Chicken Pizzaiola with Mozzarella and Pepperoni seem like recipes that are out of reach, think again. Fabio shows home chefs how to cook “Grandma Style” (that is, like an intuitive Italian), and even those on a tight schedule will soon be whipping up great dinners. The over 100 no-fail recipes include Mascarpone and Ricotta-Stuffed Peaches, 15-Minute Seafood Cioppino, and Salted Caramel Chocolate Cake. Fabio’s 30 Minute Italian provides lots of time saving tips, from freezing batches of herbs and dressing to making your own pasta dough in three minutes tops.
Along the way, Fabio shares stories from his early life in Florence where he apprenticed at age five to his wheel-chair-bound and wooden-spoon-wielding great-grandmother to his American life cooking dinner for his wife and infant son in Chicago. Gorgeously illustrated throughout, and filled with his through-the-roof energy and charisma, Fabio’s 30 Minute Italian is guaranteed to make you enjoy your time in the kitchen—and the results!
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Viviani, a restaurateur and TV personality, knows which side his garlic bread is buttered on. Seven photos of his handsome face turn up even before the first appetizer appears, and another half dozen or so are scattered among the more than 100 recipes. All of this helps to distract from the fact that a large handful of these recipes take longer than 30 minutes to prepare. They are rustic, leisurely dishes that shouldn't be hurried to begin with, but Viviani betrays his premise not only with a 45-minute carrot soup and a 90-minute strawberry-almond souffl , but abandons the concept completely with a six-hour braised pork and an eight-hour leg of lamb. "Everything I am I owe to pasta," he writes; thus the book's centerpiece offers instruction on making classic, whole-wheat, and gluten-free pastas, and provides 16 hearty and fancy variations, including rigatoni with roasted shrimp, marinated crab, and red pepper sauce, as well as fettuccine with salmon, dill, zucchini ribbons, and Romano sauce. When photographer Armendariz turns his lens toward the plate, in this ultimately accessible cookbook, there are delicious close-ups of multicolored entr es such as sea bass with red pepper sauce, pistachio gremolata, and mascarpone sauce.
