A Blissful Feast: Culinary Adventures in Italy's Piedmont, Maremma, and Le Marche

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A delicious journey through Italy and a celebration of the relationship between family and food.


Moving from the Italian Piedmont to the Maremma and then to Le Marche, chef Teresa Lust interweaves portraits of the people who served as her culinary guides with cultural and natural history in this charming exploration of authentic Italian cuisine.

We learn how to preparebagna caudaa robust dipping sauce of anchovies, garlic, and olive oilwith Lusts relatives outside Torino. We learn about making hand-stretchedgrissini, Italys iconic breadstick, the secrets of whipping upzabaione, a classic dessert of ethereal foam made with egg yolks, sugar, and marsala. Then there isacquacotta, a rustic soup that nourished generations of the areas shepherds and cowhands. In the town of Camerano, an eighty-year-old woman reveals the art of hand-rolling pasta with a three-foot rolling pin.

Underpinning Lusts travels is our journey from chef to cook, mirroring the fact that Italians have been masters of home cooking for generations, so they are an obvious source of inspiration. Today, more and more people are rediscovering the pleasures of cooking at home, and Lusts accountand wonderful recipeswill help readers bring an Italian sensibility to their home tables.

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One of my beach reads this year was yourbook A Blissful Feast.Enjoyed it very much as it broughtback wonderful memories of my travels in those regions. -- Mary Ann Esposito, host of PBS televisionsCiao Italia! * Ciao Italia! *

Author Bio

Teresa Lust is the author of Pass the Polenta: and Other Writings from the Kitchen. She is a graduate of Washington State University and holds a master's degree from Dartmouth College. Lust currently teaches Italian for the Rassias Center for World Languages at Dartmouth and teaches cooking classes. She lives in New Hampshire.