Five Quarters

Five Quarters Recipes and Notes from a Kitchen in Rome

Hardback (04 Jun 2015)

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Publisher's Synopsis

Rachel Roddy's Five Quarters won the Guild of Food Writers' First Book award and the André Simon Food Book award 2015.

'Five Quarters stands out as particularly considered and evocative...Impeccably researched and transportive, it's a proper read, rather than a quick flick.'
AA Gill, Sunday Times best cookbooks 2015


'Of course I thought Rome was glorious, but I didn't want to stay. A month, three at most, then I'd take a train back to Sicily to finish the clockwise journey I'd interrupted, before moving even further southwards...'

Instead, captivated by the exhilarating life of Testaccio, the wedge-shaped quarter of Rome that centres round the old slaughterhouse and the bustling food market, Rachel decided to rent a flat and live there. Thus began an Italian adventure that's turned into a brand new life. Five Quarters charts a year in Rachel's small kitchen, shopping, cooking, eating and writing, capturing a uniquely domestic picture of life in this vibrant, charismatic city.

Combining Rachel's love of Italian food and cooking with a strong nostalgia for home and memories of growing up in England, this is a cookbook to read in bed as well as to use in the kitchen.

Chapters:
Antipasti
Soup & Pasta
Meat & Fish
Vegetables
Dolci

Book information

ISBN: 9781444735062
Publisher: Headline Publishing Group
Imprint: Headline
Pub date:
DEWEY: 641.5945092
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 379
Weight: 1306g
Height: 253mm
Width: 186mm
Spine width: 34mm