Penguin Books Australia

Italian Local celebrates the joys of Italian cooking and local produce.  Tobie Puttock gathers together 100 of his favourite Italian-inspired recipes, and shows us how to achieve authentic Italian flavours wherever we live.

Convinced that cooking and eating should be about nurturing the soul as well as the body, Tobie urges us to use of the best available seasonal produce.  Often he sticks to the script of Italian classics, such as Risotto Milanese.  At other times, he improvises, resulting in inspiring dishes such as Potato Gnocchi with Morels and Vanilla.

Italian Local is a book that opens our minds to the myriad of possibilities of Italian food and to the value of using produce that is not only good for us but good for the earth.