t's not *aimed* at young newly weds, as such. It's a wonderful mix of extremely simple recipes and those from famous restaurateurs to those that Mama used to make for feasts and festivals. The Amazon blurb about it is misleading in that sense.
Searching for Italian lamb recipe 616Umbrian I think one of the best things about Italy - and I like Italian food more than any other - is precisely what you say. It's not only enormously diverse, it is food and methods of...
That has been blown out of proportion. I don-t know anyone who has that book, but it does sell very well. It is general cookery in a country where if you drive 10 miles you find a different cuisine. This is the most ungeneral country I know of. Two of my neighbors do not own a single cookbook and just make what they-ve had all their lives exactly as mom made it. One daughter buys cookery magazines and astounds her mom with new things. Then there is my friend who cooks everything. She has hundreds of books from all the regions of Italy. She buys a magazine dedicated to cheese every month. Imagine reading that much about cheese! She is a sommelier as well and reads everything on wine every month. Two extremes. Neither has the Silver Spoon. Nor do I. But there are many regional recipes on regional sites, and I am happy to translate if they arent in dialect I don-t know.
