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Making bread has always been a natural passion for Gennaro Contaldo. In this book, Gennaro takes you onto a journey into the magical world of Italian bread and baking, giving you his secret tips on making the perfect dough to create wonderful Italian breads for all occasions.
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‘Gennaro is an incredible baker – bread has always been central to everything he does. This is a great book – incredible food and full of Gennaro-style passion’ – Jamie Oliver
Making bread has always been a natural passion for Gennaro Contaldo. Ingrained since childhood with memories of his mother’s weekly bread-making and visits to his uncle’s village bakery, it is a skill which has followed him throughout his career as a chef.
In Gennaro's Italian Bakery, Gennaro takes you on a journey into the magical world of Italian bread and baking, sharing his secret tips on making the perfect dough to create wonderful Italian breads for all occasions. And not only bread – have you ever walked into an Italian panetteria (bakery) and marvelled at the amazing variety of freshly baked goods? Not only filone, filoncini, ciabatta, campagnia, panini, but also amazing focaccia, pizzette, biscuits, and cakes.
Included will be Gennaro’s fabled focaccia made in different regional varieties as well as mouth-watering torte salate (Italian savoury pies) using seasonal ingredients such as spinach & artichoke oozing with fontina cheese for spring, or escarole, black olives & anchovy for winter. There will be a section of rustic pane dolce (sweet breads) as well as delicious crostate (sweet pastry tarts), biscuits, and traditional homemade cakes just like Nonna used to make.
This book will be the ultimate in Italian bread and baking – it will be your Italian panetteria bible, where you will almost smell that dreamy, irresistible aroma of fresh baking as you flick through the pages.
Word count: 55,000
Book Details
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ISBN: 9781910904350
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 08 September 2016
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Pavilion
Illustration: 90 colour photographs
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 24.0mm
Width: 189.0mm
Height: 246.0mm
Weight: 930g
Pages: 224
About the Author
Gennaro Contaldo was born in Minori in Amalfi. He came to Britain in the late 1960s and worked in several restaurants around the country and in London, where he eventually opened the award-winning Passione. He came to public attention as the chef who inspired Jamie Oliver when they worked together atAntonio Carluccio's Neal Street restaurant. In Spring 2011 he co-presented Two Greedy Italians on BBC2 with Antonio Carluccio and in spring 2012 a second series, Two Greedy Italians Still Hungry was broadcast. He is the author of several cookbooks, including Let's Cook Italian, Gennaro's Italian Year and Passione.
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