Recipes for a Well Lived Life.
Pino Luongo is Tuscan to his toes - by birth, in sensibility, philosophically, and in the way he lives his life. To be Tuscan, Pino says, "is to honour all your senses". And Pino believes that everyone would benefit from having a little bit of Tuscany in his or her life, which is why he has written 'Simply Tuscan'.
Here are twenty complete, simple-to-prepare but sensational menus, arranged by season and prefaced by the author's wise and witty commentary on the occasion for which the menu was designed, as well as on the food itself. Pino provides American home cooks not only with the recipes for meals highlighting the quintessential Tuscan ingredients of each season, but also with menus for a variety of occasions ranging from an Easter Dinner to a Summer Night Seafood Extravaganza to Falls' First Truffle Dinner to a New Year's Eve Buffet. And there are also menus for more intimate occasions: A First Dinner for the In-Laws; a Dinner Date for Two; a Lunch for the Children and Their Friends. Some of the recipes are totally, typically, traditionally Tuscan, while others are modern interpretations that nevertheless remain truly Tuscan in spirit.
'Simply Tuscan' is intended, in Pino's words, to "convert you to Tuscanism . . . once you get a taste for it, there no turning back." And this beautifully designed, lavishly illustrated, deliciously tempting book is certain to do just that.
