La Grotta Ices

(Hardback)

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75 refreshingly inventive and dynamically flavoured seasonal ice creams, sorbets and granitas. Featuring 75 refreshing recipes, this book is the ultimate gift for ice cream fans. In a small converted greengrocers in south London (her ice cream shed), Kitty Travers creates an array of iced delights - fresh ice creams that taste of the real, whole fruits; hand-made choc ices that crack open to reveal layers of playful pastel-coloured flavours; juice-drenched granitas to be stuffed into brioche buns with fresh cream; and eye-popping, palate-tickling sorbets. La Grotta Ices is the culmination of Kitty's obsessive exploration and research into 75 ice cream, sorbet and granita recipes. Sunlit flavours and far flung traditions pervade Kitty's ice creams as well as her ultimate inspiration- nature. La Grotta celebrates ripe seasonal fruits and the true artistry of real ice cream through inventive flavours and pure, natural ingredients. 'Kitty is an ice cream magician, her flavours are total food alchemy, it's like she's climbed inside my head and come up with my dream flavours. I am spellbound' Anna Jones

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Kitty is an ice cream magician, her flavours are total food alchemy, it's like she's climbed inside my head and come up with my dream flavours. I am spellbound. * Anna Jones *
The ice cream queen. This wonderful book will have you knocking up batches of amazing ice cream in no time. * Justin Gellatly *
Bellissimo. A joyous, imaginative book filled with stories of chasing flavours ... A bit like being let in on a secret, a bit magic * Rachel Roddy *
A gorgeous book ... I love her quirky yet spot on flavour combinations * Skye Gyngell *
This is the foundation text both for those who just want to ice their cream, as well as seekers of freezer cabinet ecstasy * Strong Words *

Author Bio

Kitty Travers trained at the Institute of Culinary Education in New York City and returned to London to become pastry chef at St John Bread & Wine before leaving to set up La Grotta. She has also worked as an ice cream advisor to larger national and international companies. In her spare time Kitty works abroad, including cooking at Alice Waters' Rome Sustainable Food Project and living and working in Naples and in Sicily. Further afield Kitty has worked on ice cream making projects in Iceland, Turkey, Brazil and the United States. Kitty's Piaggio Ape is based at Spa Terminus in Bermondsey. Tubs of La Grotta ice cream can also be found at respected food shops in London. The Piaggio Ape regularly returns to its pitch at Frieze Art Fair and Kitty teaches a long established class in ice cream making at the multi award-winning School of Artisan Foods.