Product Description
Title : DOVE OSANO LE API
Author Maria Salemi
Format: 11,8X15,8
n° pages: 64
novembre 2008
The latest title of Vallecchi’s “I quaderni del mangier sano” cookbook series is dedicated to honey, and is entitled “Dove osano le api”, 50 recipes with honey by Maria Salemi (pp. 64, 5.50 euros). It’s renown that at times they return, and in this case, it’s really good news. After centuries of oblivion, honey has recently returned to our kitchens, increasingly more often replacing sugar, the very same sweetener that took its place in the early sixteenth century, gradually making us forget its taste. Considered by the Greeks as the food of the gods, and so much loved by our ancestors that the ancient Romans had to import it, honey has never been a simple sweetener, but instead a panacea: at times a pharmaceutical and others an aphrodisiac, disinfectant and emollient, it is a veritable natural reconstituent. While for Octavian Augustus, it was the secret of long life, and today we are careful not to consider it a cure-all, there is no doubt that honey really is a food suited to everyone, from children to the elderly, from athletes to the sedentary, which is easily assimilated and nutritional. If you think, though, that the only way to eat it is on sliced bread in the morning, you are wrong: honey in fact goes very well with decided tastes like seasoned cheese or smoked fish, and even with unusual companions like guinea fowl, spelt or red cabbage. And how can we spark the imagination armed only with a simple jar? To start with, trust the 50 amazing recipes contained in this book: taste is the limit! The Author Author of numerous essays on the history of cooking and food culture, Maria Salemi has a style that is so pleasant that you can almost taste her recipes as you read the book. Her great experience has made her one of the Italian consultants most in demand at commemorations of historical events where food is involved. This is her first book for the Quaderni del mangier sano series.