Sophia Loren's Recipes and Memories - Hardcover

Sophia Loren

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1577193679 ISBN 13: 9781577193678

Publisher: Gt Pub Corp, 1998

Synopsis

The world-famous actress dishes up one hundred of her favorite Italian family recipes, from Venetian risotto to Neapolitan pizza to Sicilian fish, complemented by memories of her home life and family photographs. Tour.

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The international film star and Italian icon mixes personal anecdotes with a plethora of ethnic recipes to create a handsome cookbook-cum-memoir. The recipes are a sampling of classic dishes from all over Italy: e.g., risotto dishes from the northern provinces and stuffed sardines from the coast of Sicily. Best of all, though, are the plentiful regional dishes Loren grew up eating while living in the outskirts of war-torn Naples. The stories she relates here are food-based, from the smells and tastes she remembers from her grandmother's southern Italian kitchen to the caviar dishes she discovered while recently filming in Russia. Many of the recipes are basic, found in the repertoire of most Italian cooks. Although the minestrone and ragout are rounded out with a handful of specialty dishes and the occasional addition of exotic ingredients, such as freshly caught squid, the real attraction is Loren's endorsement of the simpler country-style dishes now familiar to Italian food lovers. Personal vintage photos are mixed with current, instructional ones. Expect some demand.ADavid Nudo, "Library Journal"
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Film star and age-defying beauty Sophia Loren's new cookbook introduces readers to her Neapolitan grandmother, Nonna Luisa, to whom she credits not only her loyal granddaughter's love for good food but also the actress' zest for life. Loren evidences sincere appreciation for the grand cooking traditions she has learned in the Naples of her childhood, but her contemporary cooking style reflects a much more pan-Italian approach. For example, Loren's personal favorite pasta sauce comes from the north coastal regions of Liguria. This uncooked sauce recalls the famous pesto genovese, but it relies on parsley in lieu of basil and has the added protein of pureed anchovies. This enrichment of fish in a pasta sauce obviates the need for cheese, so this sauce may well become a staple for cooks eager to avoid cheese's saturated fats. But Loren is no doctrinaire fat abolitionist, for she multiplies the richness of the already luxurious Roman staple, pasta Barbara, by using simply egg yolks instead of whole eggs. Meat dishes and fish dishes don't shy away from more typical Italian staples on the order of rabbit and dried cod. Her very few desserts reflect Italian restraint on postdinner sweets. Loren's recipes are based on sound Italian tradition^-fresh ingredients, simply cooked, with no Hollywood pretensions. Old family photographs and movie stills sprinkled among the recipes reveal the sources of Loren's compelling beauty (her mother's striking resemblance to Garbo) and show the progression of her talent and success in the movies. No special revelations or insights into Loren's life and loves appear here, and she carries forward her public devotion to her family and to the pleasures of the table. Mark Knoblauch

Edition details

• Publisher: Gt Pub Corp
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1577193679
• ISBN 13: 9781577193678
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224