Risotto! Risotto!: 80 Recipes and All the Know-How You Need to Make Italy's Famous Rice Dish

Shows how to make a basic risotto, and includes recipes for variants flavored with a wide range of ingredients, including cheeses, vegetables, herbs, mushrooms, fish and other seafood, meats, fruits, and alcohol

Valentina Harris is the noted UK authority on Italian food and cuisine. She published her first book Perfect Pasta in 1984 and her thirteenth book Simply Italian in June 1995. She is a popular television personality, having hosted 'Italian Regional Cookery' for the BBC in 1990 and she appears regularly on the BBC Production 'Ready Steady Cook!' As a qualified cookery teacher, she gives many demonstrations and hands-on classes both in the UK, at schools such as Leith's and abroad in countries such as South Africa, Japan, New Zealand and Australia. She appears regularly on radio and contributes as a food writer to many publications including The Times, The Evening Standard and Homes and Gardens. She also acts as a consultant to major food manufacturing and retailing organizations on product and recipe development.