Naturally Vegetarian
Recipes and Stories from My Italian Family Farm: A Cookbook
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As the daughter of an Italian farming family, Solfrini grew up eating fresh, local, seasonal foods, but when she moved to New York City to study design, she quickly felt the damaging effects that came with eating a new diet filled with processed foods, too much meat, and too few vegetables. When she returned to Italy, she embraced the seasonal, vegetable-friendly foods of her youth once more, and after eliminating meat from her diet, felt better than ever. Surrounded by the countryside and living on her family's farm, the inspiration to live naturally and healthfully was everywhere and she started her blog to show the world just how fresh, beautiful, and healthful vegetarian Italian cooking could be.
Naturally Vegetarian is an extension of Hortus Cusine, and will be filled with more of Solfrini's arrestingly beautiful photography of rural Italian scenery, authentic tales of Italian farm life and customs through the ages, and more of the delicious vegetarian recipes her fans have come to know and love. Naturally Vegetarian will offer readers a glimpse of a year on an Italian farm and the recipes that come with the changing of the seasons. She also shares how to stock a whole foods Italian pantry, introducing them to new ingredients like chestnut flour, farro, and tomato passata, and the fundamental recipes and techniques for preparing and cooking fresh pasta. Filled with exquisite recipes like Creamy Sunchoke Soup with Golden Onions, Chickpea Crespelle with Spring Vegetable Ragu, Piadina Romagnola with Grilled Vegetables and Tomato Pesto, Pistachio and White Chocolate Tiramisu, and so many more, Naturally Vegetarian is a celebration of Italy's colors, smells, and flavors and will show readers a new side to the traditional Italian kitchen.
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Release date
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Kindle Book
- ISBN: 9781101983607
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OverDrive Read
- ISBN: 9781101983607
- File size: 69075 KB
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EPUB ebook
- ISBN: 9781101983607
- File size: 69075 KB
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Languages
- English
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Reviews
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October 16, 2017
In this thoroughly enjoyable book, Solfrini, a graphic designer and blogger (Hortus Cuisine) who lives on her family’s farm in central Italy, takes the reader through seasonal chapters on vegetarian Italian cooking. Solfrini explains that vegetables are valued in her family and that the pasta- and bread-making techniques covered here have been passed down from her mother and grandmother. Home cooks are prepped with the importance of stocking a pantry of ingredients, keeping on hand basic recipes (including vegetable stock, tomato sauce, vegetarian “Bolognese” sauce, and “quick pizza”), and offered a primer on pasta making. The fall chapter makes use of pumpkin in gnocchi with sage and pumpkin-seed pesto, as well as in a pumpkin orzotto, while pears find their place in the chocolate cake. Cabbage is the focus in the winter section and features in recipes such as cabbage parcels with lentils and onions. Braised artichokes, farrotto with asparagus, and a stinging-nettle soup with cannellini beans are highlights in spring. Stunning full-page photos transport the reader to the Italian countryside, while recipes up the ante on vegetarian and plant-based cooking. -
November 15, 2017
Solfrini, creator of the award-winning blog HortusCuisine.com, whips up appealing vegetarian food on her family's farm in Gradara, Italy. Her debut cookbook melds seasonal Italian recipes (e.g., classic bruschetta, risotto with radicchio and walnuts, coconut caramel panna cotta with chocolate) with artful photographs and rapturous accounts of rural life. Recipes often call for pantry items to be made in advance (e.g., vegetable stock, crumb topping, bechamel sauce, tomato passata), but savvy cooks will be able to devise shortcuts. VERDICT Solfrini's luxurious plant-based recipes will interest readers who favor quality ingredients and cooking from scratch.
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