Product Description

After seeking out the best soups from family, friends, and restaurants through every region of Italy, award-winning cookbook author Joe Famularo presents 150 enticing, unexpected, exuberantly flavorful recipes. Here are tasty soups for every appetite and every season. Cold-weather comfort is as close as Abruzzi Chickpea and Chestnut Soup. And casual warm-weather lunches and suppers are more tempting with a tureen of Zuppa di Primavera ("soup of springtime"). And for anytime: Five-Fish Soup from Livorno or Garlicky Mussels in Broth.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #332334 in Books
• Published on: 1996-12-15
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 304 pages

From Library Journal
Both Famularo and Wasserman-Miller stress the regional nature of Italian soups, and both include dozens of traditional recipes for minestre and minestrone, brodo, and zuppe. But Famularo, who grew up in a large Italian-American household, has a more personal approach, while Wasserman-Miller, who fell in love with Italy on her first visit there and later opened a Boston food shop called Formaggio, takes a somewhat more formal one, with more explanations of basic techniques and culinary background. Famularo includes many fondly remembered family recipes as well as favorites from his travels to Italy; Wasserman-Miller's collection seems a bit more wide-ranging, featuring some less well-known recipes along with the classics. Although there is some overlap here, of course, the two authors' approaches and interpretations of the traditional recipes are different enough to make both these books worth adding to most collections; they're also good companions to Margaret and G. Franco Ramagnoli's Zuppa! (LJ 12/96).
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Ingram
From basic broth to simple pasta-and-bean soup to marvelous meals-in-a-pot, here are over 150 tasty soups for every appetite and every season--from the author of THE JOY OF GRILLING, THE JOY OF PASTA, and the James Beard Award-winning CELEBRATIONS. Try hearty, winter-weather soups from Northern Italy; Fresh Asparagus Soup for spring; Umbrian Roasted Tomato Soup in season; Garlicky Mussels in Broth anytime, and much more. Illustrated .

About the Author
Joe Famularo is a widely traveled food writer whose articles have appeared in Bon Appetit, Gourmet, and The New York Times Magazine. His books include Celebrations, winner of a James Beard Award, and The Joy of Grilling, which won an IACP/Seagrams Award. He lives in Pawling, New York and Key West, Florida.

JULIE PASCHKIS has illustrated many books for children and has had a number of solo gallery shows. She lives in Seattle, Washington.