Risotto With Nettles: A Memoir with Food (Paperback)
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Short Description for Risotto With Nettles Born in Milan, Anna del Conte grew up in Italy in a gentler time. When war came to Italy everything changed: her family had to abandon their apartment and the city for the countryside, where the peasants still ate well, but life was dangerous. This is a memoir of a life seen through food - each chapter rounded off with recipes.
Full description- Publisher: VINTAGE
- Published: 06 September 2010
- Format: Paperback 336 pages
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- Categories: Biography: General | Memoirs | Food & Drink | National & Regional Cuisine
- ISBN 13: 9780099505990 ISBN 10: 0099505991
- Sales rank: 73,461
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Full description for Risotto With Nettles
Born in Milan, Anna del Conte grew up in Italy in a gentler time. When war came to Italy everything changed: her family had to abandon their apartment and the city for the countryside, where the peasants still ate well, but life was dangerous...As a teenager, Anna became used to throwing herself into a ditch as the strafing planes flew over, and was imprisoned, twice. Her story is informed and enlivened by the food and memories of her native land - from lemon granita to wartime risotto with nettles, from vitello tonnato to horsemeat roll, from pastas to porcini. Anna arrived in England in 1949 to a culinary wasteland. She married an Englishman and stayed on, and while bringing up her children, she wrote books which inspired a new generation of cooks. This is a memoir of a life seen through food - each chapter rounded off with mouthwatering recipes.
