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Italian Two Easy: Simple Recipes from the London River Cafe

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Simple Recipes from the London River Cafe

Deliciously simple, delightfully sophisticated

London’s hot-spot River Cafe has been seducing guests with its completely irresistible renderings of authentic regional Italian food for almost twenty years. Now, cofounders Rose Gray and Ruth Rogers, bestselling authors of the River Cafe cookbook series, present Italian Two Easy , a follow-up to their immensely popular Italian Easy , sharing 150 additional quick and easy recipes for everyone who loves Italian food but does not want to spend ages preparing it.

With just a small number of fresh ingredients and minimal effort, you can re-create the flavors of Italy in your home kitchen with recipes such as cucumber salad with mint and mascarpone, linguine with clams and white asparagus, beef tenderloin with red wine and horseradish, zucchini scapece, and hazelnut truffle cake. Organized into fourteen chapters, including Really Easy Soups, Salads, Tomato Pastas, Roast Meat, Italian Vegetables, and Chocolate & Coffee, the recipes are designed to save home cooks time at the end of a busy day without ever sacrificing flavor. From a dozen ways to highlight fresh mozzarella—most ready in a matter of minutes—to instructions for perfect, simply grilled fish, meats, and vegetables, Gray and Rogers’s Italian Two Easy will help bring your weeknight Italian meals to a new level.

Featuring 100 stunning full-color photographs illustrating the artistry that goes into each dish, Italian Two Easy makes it simpler than ever to achieve enviable results with the greatest of ease.

Genres cookingcookbooksfood

288 pages, Hardcover

First published June 13,2006

This edition

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Published: June 13, 2006 by Clarkson Potter
ISBN: 9780307338358
ASIN: 0307338355
Language: English

About the author

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Rose Gray was a British chef and cookery writer, who set up (with Ruth Rogers) The River Café in 1987. She won a Michelin star for this in 1998. It was here that the talents of Jamie Oliver were first spotted. She had a profound influence on a generation of celebrity chefs, including Oliver and Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, the latter stating that she had had more influence on him than any other person he had worked with. She wrote a series of cookery books and presented a programme for Channel Four.

Born as Clemency Anne Rose Swann in Bedford, just before her birth, her father, Clement Nelson Swann, and a sibling were killed in a domestic fire. She was brought up in Scotland and Surrey. Her mother, Elizabeth Anne Lawrence, settled in Guildford, and Rose studied at the Guildford College of Art, where she gained a BA in Fine Art. Her career as a professional chef began at Nell's restaurant in New York, after which time she returned to London.

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That-Freaky-Weeb

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April 17,2025

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Like the first River Cafe Easy cookbook (also lovely), there's not much to read, because the recipes are so short and straightforward. Such simplicity combined with full-page photography makes one want to whip up something like taglierini with clam and zucchini at a moment’s notice.

hokageofthenorth

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April 17,2025

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London River Cafe is evidently a great place to eat and a favorite of Gywneth Paltrow! Didn't go there though...

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April 17,2025

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If I had to own only one cookbook, this would be it. A bit of a bold statement, I know, but not only are the recipes wonderful, but they are simple, all about the ingredients and archetypes of Italian cooking. Oh and the photos are superb.

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