A Table in Venice: Recipes from My Home: A Cookbook
Learn how to cook traditional Italian dishes as well as reinvented favorites, and bring Venice to life in your kitchen with these 100 Northern Italian recipes. Traveling by gondola, enjoying creamy risi e bisi for lunch, splashing through streets that flood when the tide is high—this is everyday life for Skye McAlpine. She has lived in Venice for most of her life, moving there from London when she was six years old, and she’s learned from years of sharing meals with family and neighbors how to cook the Venetian way. Try your hand at Bigoli with Creamy Walnut Sauce, Scallops on the Shell with Pistachio Gratin, Grilled Radicchio with Pomegranate, and Chocolate and Amaretto Custard.
Author
SKYE McALPINE is the creator of From My Dining Table, a blog where she writes about living and cooking in Venice. She and her blog have been featured in Food & Wine, The Guardian, Huffington Post, Vogue Living, Food52, The Kitchn, and Cup of Jo. She lives in Venice with her husband and their son.
Review
“What she’s offering isn’t just instructions for what to cook, it’s how to have a more sustaining, vibrant, delicious existence.” -TASTE
“To eat well in Venice, you need to be invited to someone’s home, which is what McAlpine does in this book.” -Foodandwine.com
“Readers will get an authentic taste of Venice with McAlpine's vignettes evoking joyous holidays, local cafes, and the simple pleasure of a stuffed sardine in the summer.” -Vogue.com