Antonio Carluccio’s
Southern Italian Feast

  "Chiste o paese do sole," says a popular old Neapolitan song. "Italy is the land of the sun." And Antonio Carluccio says this is absolutely right.

  "The land of the sun is where I was fortunate enough to be born," remembers Antonio. My father was station-master in the village of Vietri Sul Mare on the splendid Amalfi coast. But when I was three months old, my family moved up to the North, where I grew up in another splendid area, the Monferrato.

  "I feel particularly lucky to have had a multi-regional upbringing because it taught me, through the culinary genius of my mother, the basics of what was to become my professional passion, Italian food."

  The award-winning author of "Italian Feast" celebrates the cuisine of Southern Italy in his latest collection of recipes. Inspired by his travels, Antonio has taken many regional specialties and reinterpreted them with imagination and flair; recipes like Lamb with Fennel and Marsala, Cart Driver’s Spaghetti, and Grilled Wild Mushrooms.

  Antonio is the proprietor of the Neal Street Restaurant in London’s Covent Garden and Carluccio’s, the specialist Italian food shop next door, which he owns with his wife Priscilla. The companion cookbook to his first series on GREAT FOOD, "Italian Feast," was voted England’s Favourite Cookery Book in 1997.

Cookbook available in January 2000.
Call 1-800-749-2290 for more information.