Damiano and Massimiliano Carrara, owners of Carrara Pastries in Southern California, take you on a delicious journey that will make you feel like you're right in their hometown of Lucca, Italy. With basic kitchen tools and ingredients, they help you get creative about enjoying variations of numerous pastries, including family recipes that have been passed down through the generations. Whether you're craving a basic recipe, cream or custard, bite-sized pastry or gelato, you'll find it here. Filled with pictures to guide you through the baking process, each recipe is measured in grams or liter to make them easier to scale, multiply or divide. Baking demands precision, and the authors believe you need exactly the right amount of each ingredient. Demystify tasty deserts and bring flavor into your life with the easy-to-follow recipes in Dolce Italia.
The Italian celebrity chef brings his passion for Tuscan food to the American table in this “well-balanced, deliciously presented cookbook” (Shelf Awareness). Growing up in Lucca, Italy, chef Damiano Carrara learned how to cook from his mother, his grandmother, and especially from his father. Here, he brings those beloved dishes from his family’s table to yours—including his father’s recipe for homemade gnocci with pesto. Carrara’s comforting, delicious recipes range from Pasta e Fagioli (Pasta and Bean Soup) and Insalata di Farro con Gamberi (Farro Salad with Shrimp) to Finocchi Gratinati (Fennel au Gratin), Lasagne Vegetariana ai Carciofini (Vegetarian Baby Artichoke Lasagna), and Panna Cotta scattered with fresh berries or shaved dark chocolate. This is authentic Italian home-style cooking at its best.
This book deals with the popular reception of early Italian television during the years of the socalled long “economic boom” (1954-1969). To do so, the author focuses on the Catholic and Communist audiences’ perception of the first TV programs. The investigation into these two main groups’ reception will be conducted through the analysis of all the TV references published in the readers’ columns of the two most popular rotocalchi of those years: the Catholic magazine Famiglia Cristiana and the Communist weekly Vie Nuove. Showing the collective discourse about television, made by very different types of audiences through the use of letters published by these popular magazines, this study points out how television’s impact was also a mediated process. Therefore, the innovative proposal of this book is to suggest an in-depth study of the reception and cultural history of the early Italian television.
Slowtuscany is an extraordnary journey to Tuscany, discovering well-known and lesser-known works of art, unusual paths, abandoned villages, mysterious stories, historical characters, fascinating legends. The aim of this book is to be an useful tool for travelers, who want to visit this region, grasping its true essence and tasting every flavour, aroma, colour.
Il volume raccoglie una serie di contributi riferiti sia alle città in cui Dante Alighieri ha vissuto o che ha visitato nel corso della sua vita, sia ai luoghi menzionati nella Divina Commedia, al fine di delineare – con un approccio interdisciplinare – le trasformazioni urbane e territoriali, in particolar modo in Italia, tra la seconda metà del XIII e la prima metà del XIV secolo. Le celebrazioni per i settecento anni della morte del poeta sono state un momento importante per una riflessione su questa fase cruciale della storia urbana, a cui hanno contribuito studiosi afferenti a diversi settori disciplinari, specialisti per gli ambiti territoriali presi in esame.
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