Milk Street Backroads Italy: Cooking off the Beaten Path
Discover the real techniques, ingredients, and stories behind the Italian dishes you know and love—and ones you've yet to try—with 175 simple, delicious recipes from the James Beard Award‑winning team at Milk Street.

Forget everything you thought you knew about Italian cooking. In Italy, cooks throw away their garlic cloves, don’t stir their polenta, make massive meatballs that are tender and light, and never hover over their pans of risotto. True Italian cooking is simple, surprising, and so much more interesting than what we commonly believe.
 
Backroads Italy gives readers a seat at the table with cooks across Italy who share the real recipes for the foods we love, as well as the stories of the people, places, and ingredients behind them. After years scouring Italy from Lombardia to Calabria and from Sardinia to Sicily in search of fresh takes on classic recipes, the Milk Street team challenges our assumptions about Italian food, covering both traditional favorites and new‑to‑you finds. You’ll learn about the real fettucine Alfredo—which never includes cream—to the perfect torta Barozzi, which has drawn crowds to a Modena pastry shop for nearly 140 years, to unexpected ingredients like fermented chili paste.
 
Along with these exclusive recipes, this comprehensive guide to true Italian cooking includes approachable basics, such as sauces, from‑scratch pastas, and a list of everything you need on hand for a well‑stocked pantry.
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Milk Street Backroads Italy: Cooking off the Beaten Path
Discover the real techniques, ingredients, and stories behind the Italian dishes you know and love—and ones you've yet to try—with 175 simple, delicious recipes from the James Beard Award‑winning team at Milk Street.

Forget everything you thought you knew about Italian cooking. In Italy, cooks throw away their garlic cloves, don’t stir their polenta, make massive meatballs that are tender and light, and never hover over their pans of risotto. True Italian cooking is simple, surprising, and so much more interesting than what we commonly believe.
 
Backroads Italy gives readers a seat at the table with cooks across Italy who share the real recipes for the foods we love, as well as the stories of the people, places, and ingredients behind them. After years scouring Italy from Lombardia to Calabria and from Sardinia to Sicily in search of fresh takes on classic recipes, the Milk Street team challenges our assumptions about Italian food, covering both traditional favorites and new‑to‑you finds. You’ll learn about the real fettucine Alfredo—which never includes cream—to the perfect torta Barozzi, which has drawn crowds to a Modena pastry shop for nearly 140 years, to unexpected ingredients like fermented chili paste.
 
Along with these exclusive recipes, this comprehensive guide to true Italian cooking includes approachable basics, such as sauces, from‑scratch pastas, and a list of everything you need on hand for a well‑stocked pantry.
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Milk Street Backroads Italy: Cooking off the Beaten Path

Milk Street Backroads Italy: Cooking off the Beaten Path

by Christopher Kimball, J. M. Hirsch
Milk Street Backroads Italy: Cooking off the Beaten Path

Milk Street Backroads Italy: Cooking off the Beaten Path

by Christopher Kimball, J. M. Hirsch

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Discover the real techniques, ingredients, and stories behind the Italian dishes you know and love—and ones you've yet to try—with 175 simple, delicious recipes from the James Beard Award‑winning team at Milk Street.

Forget everything you thought you knew about Italian cooking. In Italy, cooks throw away their garlic cloves, don’t stir their polenta, make massive meatballs that are tender and light, and never hover over their pans of risotto. True Italian cooking is simple, surprising, and so much more interesting than what we commonly believe.
 
Backroads Italy gives readers a seat at the table with cooks across Italy who share the real recipes for the foods we love, as well as the stories of the people, places, and ingredients behind them. After years scouring Italy from Lombardia to Calabria and from Sardinia to Sicily in search of fresh takes on classic recipes, the Milk Street team challenges our assumptions about Italian food, covering both traditional favorites and new‑to‑you finds. You’ll learn about the real fettucine Alfredo—which never includes cream—to the perfect torta Barozzi, which has drawn crowds to a Modena pastry shop for nearly 140 years, to unexpected ingredients like fermented chili paste.
 
Along with these exclusive recipes, this comprehensive guide to true Italian cooking includes approachable basics, such as sauces, from‑scratch pastas, and a list of everything you need on hand for a well‑stocked pantry.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780316582070
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Publication date: 04/15/2025
Sold by: Hachette Digital, Inc.
Format: eBook

About the Author

Christopher Kimball's Milk Street is located at 177 Milk Street in downtown Boston and is dedicated to changing the way America cooks with new flavor combinations and techniques learned around the world. Milk Street is home to Milk Street TV, a three-time Emmy Award winning public television show, a James Beard Award-winning bimonthly magazine, an award-winning radio show/podcast, a cooking school, and an online retail store with over 1,500 kitchen tools and ingredients. Milk Street is the author of 10 cookbooks, including "Cookish," "Vegetables," and the James Beard winning "Milk Street: Tuesday Nights." Milk Street also invests in non-profit outreach, partnering with FoodCorp, Big Sister Association of Greater Boston and the Boys & Girls club of Dorchester. 
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