Sweet Mediterranean Baking: Harvard Common Press
Autor Amy Rioloen Limba Engleză Hardback – 3 noi 2027
"This magnificent book offers the best of Mediterranean sweets ... and is illustrated with gorgeous and enticing photos that you could almost eat."--Clifford A. Wright, author of the James Beard Cookbook of the YearA Mediterranean Feast
Sweeten your Mediterranean cooking with these beloved baked desserts and treats from the region’s great cuisines.If you’re among the throngs adopting the Mediterranean Diet, you’ve seen lots of new recipes for ultra-healthy salads, bowls, and low-in-saturated-fats main courses. Where, you ask, is dessert? It is a good question—not just because you crave a sweet indulgence now and then, but also because in the real Mediterranean, where people live long and healthy lives, dessert is an essential part of the meal, and sweets are woven into the daily routine.
In Sweet Mediterranean Baking,one of the world’s leading authorities on Mediterranean cooking and baking, Amy Riolo, serves upmore than 75 authentic and incredibly tasty recipes from all across the Mediterranean. An avid baker since the age of three, Amy has studied local cooking traditions in the region for decades, earning global recognition—from Italy to Egypt, Turkey to Morocco, and beyond—as an expert on the topic. In this fun, colorful book, she shares her kitchen-perfected, mouthwateringly good sweet treats, including:
- Cookies for holidays and every day, such as Anise Biscotti from Italy and Greek Walnut and Honey Cookies
- Breakfast and snack breads like Spanish Milk Rolls (Pan de Leche) and Italian Custard Cream-Filled Brioche
- Spectacular cakes, from a Moroccan Yogurt and Pistachio Cake to a Vanilla and Roasted Plum Cake with Mascarpone Gelato
- Puddings, Clafoutis, and Flans, including Spanish Pumpkin Flan and Provencal Plum Clafoutis
- Iconic treats, such as a French Christmas Log (Buche de Noel) and Classic Greek Walnut and Cinnamon Baklava
Along the way, Amy shares fascinating stories about the histories of these dishes and how they are cooked in homes today, along with expert tips, tricks, and wisdom that ensure perfect-every-time results.
With so many delicious options, you will never cook Mediterranean food again without a magnificent sweet treat to finish the meal.
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Specificații
Pagini: 208
Dimensiuni: 235 x 191 x 11 mm
Greutate: 0.37 kg
Editura: Quarto Publishing Plc IWUK
Colecția Harvard Common Press
Seria Harvard Common Press
Notă biografică
Amy Riolo is a cookbook author, award-winning chef, television personality, and Mediterranean lifestyle ambassador. An Italian American of Calabrian descent, Amy created and appeared weekly in a series of cooking videos entitled Culture of Cuisine, which airs on nationally syndicated news shows on 28 different channels across the United States, totaling a reach of over 300 million people.
Among Amy’s previous cookbooks are Nile Style; Egyptian Cuisine and Culture, which won the World Gourmand Award for Best Arab Cuisine Book in the United States; Arabian Delights; Recipes & Princely Entertaining Ideas from the Arabian Peninsula, which was chosen as one of the “16 Volumes Worth Staining” by the Washington Post, and, as co-author, The Al Tiramisu Restaurant Cookbook: An Elevated Approach to Authentic Italian Cuisine, which she wrote with award-winning chef/restaurateur Luigi Diotaiuti.
Amy is a Culinary Advisor for The Mediterranean Food Alliance. Her work has appeared in numerous print media, including USA Today, Cooking Light magazine, Washington Post, CNN.com, The Wall Street Journal, Gulf News, Popular Anthropology Magazine, The UAE National, and many other international newspapers, blogs, and websites. She has appeared on Fox TV, ABC, CBS, NBC, The Hallmark Channel, Nile TV, The Travel Channel, Martha Stewart Living Radio, Calabria Uno TV, Esperia TV, and Abu Dhabi Television. She has been named a Knight of the Order of the Star of Italy by the President of the Italian Republic. Chef Amy has been baking since she was three years old and has taught baking classes in the United States, Italy, Greece, Morocco, Turkey, and Egypt for home cooks and professionals. She lives in the Washington, DC, area.