With over 100 recipes, "Viva l'Italia", is designed for anyone who loves the colour, fragrance, tradition and sheer gutsiness of Italian food. Award-winning Cordon Bleu-trained chef, Julie Biuso, has a reputation for style, authenticity and above all, well-written recipes that work for home cooks of all levels.

Table of Contents

Let's begin the feast; long leisurely lunch dishes; pasta to satisfy the soul; wickedly good ways with fish, fowl and meat; aromatic vegetables and salads; seriously good sweets.

Author Biography

A Cordon Bleu-trained chef, award-winning food writer, Julie Biuso, has a reputation for style, authenticity and, above all, well-written recipes that work for home cooks of all levels. Her most recent achievement was winning the 2001 Gourmand World Cookbook Fair Award for Best Food Literature Book in the World for her autobiographical, Dancing on My Table. Her other awards include winning the Lifestyle category in the 2001 Montana New Zealand Book Awards for Fresh (with photographer Ian Batchelor).