Sicily Guide

Southern Italian cooking is finally getting the attention long deserved. A veteran food writer with cookbooks on other Mediterranean cuisines, Nancy Harmon Jenkins in her latest, Cucina del Sole: A Celebration of Southern Italian Cooking (William Morrow, $29.95), champions the food and foodways of the southern Italian regions of Campania, Calabria, Basilicata, Puglia and Sicily. Her title translates as “the cooking of the sun,” a reference to the sun-baked region, also known as the Mezzogiorno. Overshadowed for ages by the celebrated cuisines farther north, the cooking of the south gets its due here.

Read more at Hoston Chronicle
Buy Cucina del Sole: A Celebration of Southern Italian Cooking

Technorati Tags [ nancy harmon jenkins | Cucina del Sole: A Celebration of Southern Italian Cooking | southern italian cooking | sicily cuisine ]

This entry was posted on Friday, August 31st, 2007 at 12:04 am and is filed under Books. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.