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Milk Street Backroads Italy

Finding Italy's Forgotten Recipes (A Cookbook)

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By Christopher Kimball

By J.M. Hirsch

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On Sale
Apr 15, 2025
Page Count
416 pages
Publisher
Voracious
ISBN-13
9780316582063

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$42.00

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$53.00 CAD

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  1. Hardcover $42.00 $53.00 CAD
  2. ebook $19.99 $25.99 CAD

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Discover the real techniques, ingredients, and stories behind the Italian dishes you know and love—and the ones you’ve yet to try—with more than 145 delicious recipes that bring simplicity back to Italian cooking, from the James Beard Award-winning team at Milk Street. 

Forget everything you thought you knew about Italian food. In Italy, cooks throw away their garlic, they don’t stir their polenta, and they never labor over pans of risotto. But they do make enormous meatballs that are tender and light, and they occasionally break all the rules when making pasta. 

The editors at Milk Street have spent years scouring small eateries, local markets, farms and home kitchens from Lombardy to Calabria and from Sardinia to Sicily in search of fresh takes on classic recipes as well as little-known regional favorites that never crossed the Atlantic. 

On our travels we found new ways with pasta, from foolproof cacio e pepe in Rome to Puglia’s olive oil—crisped fettuccine with chickpeas and a lemony pesto from Amalfi, where the pasta itself is enriched with citrus. Plus some surprising tomato sauces, including spaghetti all’assassina from Bari—spicy, charred, and made in one skillet. 

We visited a Neapolitan trattoria where five sisters serenade diners with opera and serve an eggplant Parmesan that’s rich, but never fried. In Northern Italy, we made meatball-like bread dumplings simmered in chicken broth. And in Sardinia, a hearty herb soup studded with pancetta, beans, and tiny nuggets of pasta.

Milk Street Backroads Italy give you a seat at the table with Italian cooks sharing the food they love, handed down from generation to generation. 

Genre:

  • “Milk Street’s latest effort is more than just another of their exceptionally instructive cookbooks … Kimball endeavors to take cooks off the culinary beaten path and show them the real culinary heart and soul of Italy.”
    Library Journal
  • “This latest volume from Milk Street has done something unexpected—it’s made Italian food new for me again.”
    Lifehacker
  • “Kimball and Hirsch bring you along with them as they seek out fresh takes on classic dishes and strive to find regional favorites that never made it to America.”
    The Berkshire Eagle

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Christopher Kimball

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 and podcast, a cooking school and an online store with nearly 2,000 kitchen tools and ingredients. Milk Street’s fourteen cookbooks include Cookish, Vegetables and the James Beard–winning Tuesday Nights. Milk Street also invests in nonprofit outreach, partnering with FoodCorp, the Big Sister Association of Greater Boston and the Boys & Girls Clubs of Dorchester.

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J.M. Hirsch

About the Author

J.M. Hirsch is the James Beard Award-winning editorial director of Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street. His previous books include Shake Strain Done and Pour Me Another.

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