Venice
  • Published: 29 March 2018
  • ISBN: 9780241299920
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 320

Venice

Four Seasons of Home Cooking

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The new cookbook from the award-winning restaurateur, writer, broadcaster, and founder of POLPO

Russell Norman returns to the city of his inspiration in POLPO to immerse himself in the authentic flavours of the region and the culinary traditions of the city. His rustic kitchen - in the only part of the city where washing hangs across the narrow streets and some houses still get their water from a communal well - provides the perfect backdrop for this adventure, and for the 130 recipes showcasing the simple but exquisite flavours of Venice. From Radicchio, Pancetta and Chickpea Salad to Duck Rigatoni, from Pea, Girolle, and Asparagus risotto to Venetian Potatoes, and from Bellini Sorbet to Chocolate and Hazelnut Semifreddo: everything from summer picnics to warming winter soup is covered in these lip smacking easy Italian family recipes.

The book also affords us a rare and intimate glimpse into the life of the city, its hidden architectural gems, its secret places, its embedded history, the colour and bustle of daily life, and the food merchants and growers who make Venice so surprisingly vibrant.
  • Published: 29 March 2018
  • ISBN: 9780241299920
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 320
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About the author

Russell Norman

Russell Norman is an award-winning restaurateur, writer and broadcaster, and the founder of the POLPO restaurant group. Norman's book POLPO - A Venetian Cookbook (of Sorts) was published by Bloomsbury and won Waterstones Book of the Year 2012. In 2014 he presented The Restaurant Man, a six-part prime-time documentary for BBC2, and his second book SPUNTINO - Comfort Food (New York Style) won the 2016 Guild of Food Writers Award for best food and travel book. He is a contributing editor for Esquire magazine and writes a monthly column as 'The Accidental Cook'. He opened his fully booked Trattoria Brutto in 2021 to universal acclaim and a long waiting list.

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Praise for Venice

Russell Norman is among the brightest stars of the British food scene ... In Venice, he returns to the recipes of that most inspirational Italian city

Esquire

Offers a rare insight into the beating heart of the city

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Wonderful... the dishes are simple but inspired

Evening Standard on POLPO

POLPO does what a great cookbook should do: it makes you urgently want to cook and breaks new territory

Daily Telegraph on POLPO

A present for the greedy gourmets in your life

Observer on POLPO

Delicious

Mail on Sunday on POLPO

Gorgeous

Daily Mail on POLPO
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