Gennaro's Cucina: A cookbook of classic Italian recipes that help to budget during a cost-of-living crisis

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In an era of excessive convenience and disposable food waste, Gennaro’s Cucina could not come at a better time – you will learn how to use simple ingredients in inventive ways, eat seasonally, spend less and, ultimately, eat better. Individuals are welcome to book onto this lesson but must be aware that this class requires you to work in pairs and you maybe paired up with another individual for duration of the class.Along with the majority of post-war Italian families, the young Gennaro was raised on a diet harvested on a limited budget. This simple but highly nutritious dish originates from rural Puglia where two main ingredients – fava beans and wild chicory – are widely available. With tips and ideas of what to do with leftovers, Gennaro helps home cooks squeeze maximum use from the 'cucina povera' ethos, turning humble ingredients into nourishing feasts without sacrificing taste. The philosophy of his book is simple, delicious, hearty meals using accessible and affordable ingredients.

In Genaro Contaldo's new and exciting book, Cucina, you will learn how to use simple ingredients, eat seasonally, spend less and eat better. For all ebook purchases, you will be prompted to create an account or login with your existing HarperCollins username and password. Learn how to use simple ingredients in inventive ways, eat seasonally, spend less and, ultimately, eat better. Encouraging an ethos of zero waste, Gennaro's Cucina ensures that every part of the ingredient, and your budget, is put to good culinary use.If you can get dandelion or puntarelle from your greengrocer, remember to remove the heart, which you can then use in a salad (see Insalata di Cuore di Cicoria recipe on page 129). It originates mainly from rural areas, where meals were created using the limited number of ingredients available – either what people grew or what little they could afford. In this inspirational cookbook, Gennaro takes you on a culinary journey of regional basic Italian staples and turns them into beautiful meals. Restricted choice of scarce ingredients meant they learnt the value of what they had, how to cook dishes lovingly and use imaginative methods of preservation to make simple dishes go far: including salting, drying and curing.

With tips and ideas on what to do with leftovers, Gennaro helps home cooks squeeze maximum use from the 'cucina povera' ethos, turning humble ingredients into nourishing feasts without taste sacrifice. Next up, you’ll rustle up Pasta e piselli cremosi (creamy pasta with peas), before cracking on with your main course – Sgombro alla pizzaiola (mackerel fillets cooked in a tomato, caper and oregano sauce). Only paid guests who are actively taking part in a cookery lesson are permitted to be at the cookery school whilst classes are in progress.Remove the leaves from the dandelion (and the heart if using puntarelle) and save the roots to make a salad (see recipe intro). The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network.

With tips and ideas of what to do with leftovers, Gennaro helps home cooks turn humble ingredients into nourishing feasts without taste sacrifice. The duration of the lesson includes the teaching time as well as time taken to enjoy eating what you have made. With tips and ideas of what to do with leftover, Gennaro’s Cucina squeezes the most from the ‘cucina povera’ ethos’, ensuring that every part of the ingredient, and your budget, is put to good culinary use.Join the don of Italian cooking for an exclusive 3-hour class, with recipes from his new cookbook Cucina . He is renowned for being a mentor to Jamie Oliver and teaching him, with Carluccio, everything Jamie knows about Italian cooking. As a result, it meant that his family had to learn to value what they had and make meals using accessible and affordable ingredients. Ebooks fulfilled through Glose cannot be printed, downloaded as PDF, or read in other digital readers (like Kindle or Nook).