Following her hugely popular RTE TV series, ʿCatherine's Italian Kitchenʾ, and her latest show, ʿCatherine's Roman Holidayʾ, Catherine Fulvio presents her personal collection of recipes to brighten up Irish kitchens with delicious flavours of Italy. This wonderful selection of vibrant recipes, influenced by Catherine's long summers spent at her home in Sicily, have been gathered from Italian friends and her husband's family in Sicily and Rome, and perfected at her Wicklow cookery school. With over 100 dishes for all levels of cooks, including familiar recipes with a twist - pizzas, pastas and risotto - as well as the unfamiliar - homemade limoncello, a traditional lemon liqueur, or Stromboli, a mouth-watering bread filled with mozzarella and pancetta, from the volcanic island off the coast of Sicily. So, expect the passion of Sicilian cooking, the heartiness of Roman fare, along with tasty treats from Tuscany, Naples and Venice. Catherine's infectious enthusiasm for food pervades every recipe as she leads you through your Italian cooking experience. Featuring photography of spectacular Sicilian and Roman scenery taken from the TV series, this is truly Italian food for an Irish kitchen. Buon Appetito!

Italians refuse to compromise when it comes to food. They eat with the regions and seasons, and the respect the importance of mealtimes: work, family, life all resolve round food. Fulvio shows you how to celebrate all that is great about Italian food and food culture in this collection of new recipes for the good life.

Catherine Fulvio returns to her favourite food as she celebrates the best of Italian baking.

"In the tradition of M.F.K. Fisher and Peter Mayle, this ... memoir follows American-born Katherine Wilson on her adventures abroad, where a three-month rite of passage in Naples turns into a permanent embrace of this boisterous city on the Mediterranean. It is all thanks to a surprising romance, a new passion for food, and a spirited woman who will become her mother-in-law--and teach her to laugh, to seize joy, and to love"--

Catherine Fulvio cooks at home, and shows you how! Over 100 recipes, including all those seen on her 8-part RTÉ autumn series in 2011, take you through the full range of home cooking possibilities. Just a few samples: STARTERS Thai Crab Croquettes/Mushroom & Thyme Risotto Cakes BAKING Brown Bread/Soda Bread/Scones SPEEDY SUPPERS Beef Stir Fry/Spanish Chicken MEAT & FISH Duck with Spiced Plums/Haddock Portuguese VEG & SPUDS Cheesy Courgette Bake/Herby Champ DESSERTS Mocha Crème Brulée/Sticky Guinness Pudding And throughout the book, Catherine stresses the Power of Five, for example 5 Store Cupboard essentials 5 Ways with White Soda Bread 5 Sauces for Meat & Fish 5 Ways with Bolognese Sauce 5 ways with Salad Dressing This is Catherine Fulvio in full flow: practical, geared to our busy modern lives - and truly delicious. We can all cook like this.

While waiting for construction to finish on his restaurant A Voce, Andrew Carmellini faced an unusual challenge. After a brilliant career in professional kitchens (including a 6-year tour as chef de cuisine at Café Boulud), he was faced with the harsh reality of life as a civilian cook: no prep cooks, no saucier, no daily deliveries - just him and his wife in their tiny Manhattan-apartment kitchen. Urban Italian is made up of the recipes that result when a great chef has to use the same resources available to the rest of us. In these hundred recipes - covering five distinct courses, cocktails, and base recipes - Carmellini shows how to make stunning, soulful food with nothing more than the ingredients, techniques, and time available to the ordinary home cook. Recipes include crisped artichokes with yogurt, mint, and sauce picante; duck meatballs with cherry moustarda sauce; roast pork with Italian plums and grappa; spicy cod with rock shrimp; and marinated grapes with red-wine granita. Along with the recipes (beautifully photographed by Quentin Bacon), Carmellini and his wife, Gwen Hyman, have written a number of sections to help readers bring home more of a great chef's experience. These begin with a narrative that traces Andrew's culinary education, and continue with short pieces on places and ingredients, placed alongside recipes to shed light on the history and practice of simple, beautiful cooking.