Product Description: There's an old Venetian saying - magna e bevi che a vita xe un lampo - "eat and drink because life is a lightning flash". With this in mind, Katie and Giancarlo Caldesi have dodged the tourists and unearthed some of the most delicious and authentic recipes that the romantic, alluring city of Venice has to offer...read more

Product Description: The growing popularity of vegetable gardening and buying locally grown produce has sparked an increase in home food preservation, such as canning, freezing, and drying. Join Katie and Giancarlo Caldesi on their two year-long journey discovering different methods of conserving food, as they combine traditional tried-and-tested preserving techniques with a thoroughly modern perspective, from smoking fish in Scotland to drying chiles in Sri Lanka...read more

Product Description: Wild Rosemary and Lemon Cake features more than 100 delicious recipes and stunning photographs from Italy’s picturesque Amalfi coast. The Amalfi coast is one of Italy’s magical spots: a sun-drenched land that looks like a glamorous film set, bursting with lemon trees, breathtaking scenery, and food fit for a king...read more

Product Description:   Experience the flavors of traditional Italian cooking with Mama Caldesi and her family in their Tuscan country kitchen.  Try over a hundred of her favorite and everyday special occasion recipes that have been tried and tested over the generations and passed down to Katie and Giancarlo Caldesi...read more

Based on the successful sojourn of authors in Tuscany, this work contains chapters which start with a lesson, reflecting the different stages of their cookery course, guiding you through the basic techniques of pasta-making, choosing the best ingredients for an antipasti platter, cooking meat on an open fire, and other aspects of Tuscan cooking.

'The Mama's Kitchen' series is a celebration of the fascinating and diverse culinary traditions from different communities as continued by families today. It looks at the typical fare and its significance within the culture and then gives it a modern twist.