Originale: Recipes and Essentials of Italian Cooking

A complete guide on how to source and prepare essential ingredients for traditional, homemade Italian cuisine at home.

The quality of Italian cuisine is based on the quality of its ingredients. For Italians, the quality of the basic ingredients in their dishes is everything. For some, it’s even as important as the air they breathe. This is why classic, homemade Italian food is incomparable to any other in the world. Its richness of taste belies its apparent simplicity, and it’s all down to the superior quality of those timeless, key elements that truly makes traditional Italian cooking so flavourful.

Originale is not just another recipe book. It is, in essence, a guide. A manual on how to do it like the Italians. The dozens of inspiring recipes within these pages are built from a handful of crucial ingredients that, if sourced correctly—as detailed in this book—can transport you directly to the kitchens of Rome, Naples, or Bologna via your own plate. Originale is lovingly curated to celebrate the enduring nature of Italian cuisine, its history, and culture. Buon appetito!

Founder of Viani Alimentari, and manager of Viani Importe GmbH, Remo Viani discovered the true flavors of Italy, like many do, through the home cooked meals of his grandmother in Pietra Ligure. In the mid 1990s he quit his successful career in advertising to follow in his Italian father’s footsteps by importing regional delicacies to Germany, expanding and growing the business into shops and food festivals, and building on his passion for Italian food.