Ebook: Risotto with nettles: a memoir with food
Author: Del Conte Anna
- Tags: Cookery / food & drink etc, COOKING / General, Cooking Italian, Food writers, Food writers--Great Britain, Food writers--Italy, Italians, Italians--Great Britain, Manners and customs, Biography, Biographies, Del Conte Anna, Food writers -- Italy -- Biography, Food writers -- Great Britain -- Biography, Italians -- Great Britain -- Biography, Italy -- Social life and customs, Great Britain -- Social life and customs, Great Britain, Italy
- Year: 2010
- Publisher: Random House
- City: Great Britain;Italy
- Language: English
- epub
*As featured in a BBC documentary*
Born in Milan, Anna del Conte grew up in Italy in a gentler time. When war came to Italy everything changed: her family had to abandon their apartment and the city for the countryside, where the peasants still ate well, but life was dangerous... As a teenager, Anna became used to throwing herself into a ditch as the strafing planes flew over, and was imprisoned, twice. Her story is informed and enlivened by the food and memories of her native land - from lemon granita to wartime risotto with nettles, from vitello tonnato to horsemeat roll, from pastas to porcini.
Anna arrived in England in 1949 to a culinary wasteland. She married an Englishman and stayed on, and while bringing up her children, she wrote books which inspired a new generation of cooks. This is a memoir of a life seen through food - each chapter rounded off with mouthwatering recipes.