Simply Tuscan : recipes for a well-lived life / Pino Luongo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Luongo, Pino.

Contributor:

Laurie Burrows Grad Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cooking, Italian--Tuscan style.

Cooking, Italian.

Penn Provenance:

Grad, Laurie Burrows (donor)

Physical Description:

292 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Doubleday, [2000]

Summary:

Luongo suggests 20 simple recipes for sensational Tuscan dishes, arranged by season and prefaced by comments on the food and the occasions for which the menus were designed. 200 photos, 150 in color.

Contents:

The Menus 4

The Recipes 5

Spring: Life All Around 8

A Quintessential Spring Menu 16

Easter Lunch and Easter Dinner 22

First Dinner with the in-Laws 41

Lunch for Children and Their Friends 50

Summer: Passionate Impulses 60

A Quintessential Summer Menu 68

A Summer Grilling and Barbecue Buffet 78

Dinner for Children and Their Friends 88

Late Summer Buffet 97

Summer Night Seafood Extravaganza 116

Fall: Mysteries of the Tuscan Night 130

A Quintessential Fall Menu 138

Fall's First Truffle Dinner 146

A Tuscan Thanksgiving Dinner 155

A Dinner Date for Two Prepared by Him 173

A Cooking Party 184

A Business Dinner 195

Winter: Snowy Endings and New Beginnings 204

A Quintessential Winter Menu 210

Christmas Eve and Christmas Day 221

New Year's Eve Buffet 242

New Year's Day Brunch 264

Valentine's Day 272.

Notes:

Includes index.

Local Notes:

Presented to the Penn Libraries by Laurie Burrows Grad.

ISBN:

0385492901

OCLC:

41400946

Online:

Contributor biographical information

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