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Italian Easy: Recipes from the London River Cafe

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“Easy food doesn’t have to mean unsophisticated food.”

Rose Gray and Ruth Rogers, founders of London’s renowned River Cafe, are famous for their innovative approach to traditional Italian fare. In Italian Easy , their fifth cookbook, they reinvent the Italian kitchen for today’s busy home cook, refuting the notion that elegant food requires hours of preparation. These are visually spectacular, remarkably simple recipes for those who love good food but have little time to prepare it.

Displaying the imagination and panache that are Rose and Ruth’s hallmarks, the nearly 200 recipes in Italian Easy are streamlined for efficiency in the kitchen without compromising either quality or taste. Relying on a well-stocked pantry, just a handful of fresh, seasonal ingredients, and even fewer steps, these sublime recipes summon both familiar and surprising Italian flavors. Bruschetta with tender asparagus and shaved Parmesan, tagliatelle with ripe figs and spicy chiles, slow-roasted chicken with fresh nutmeg and prosciutto, and the restaurant’s popular Chocolate Nemesis cake are all as enticing as they are effortless.

This is not Italian food that’s impossible to pronounce or prepare. At once straightforward and sexy, this is Italian Easy —the cookbook that makes it possible for busy people to eat well every night of the week.

272 pages, Hardcover

First published June 15,2004

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Format
272 pages, Hardcover
Published
June 15, 2004 by Clarkson Potter
ISBN
9781400053483
ASIN
140005348X
Language
English

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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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April 17,2025
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I've been using this book for dinner parties - constructing entire menus from it. The recipes are not necessarily quick to prepare or cook, but they are simple and involve very few ingredients. The range of flavours is wonderful.
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Gunster
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April 17,2025
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not good to read after eating dinner. you just want to go cook another one! and the desserts! esp. the cakes!!!! got this from the library, but may need to go buy my own copy. yum!
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Weeaboo801
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April 17,2025
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These gals know their stuff--great easy, everyday meals with few ingredients. The desserts are to die for!
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cookieme
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April 17,2025
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The River Cafe original is a wonderful book but you may find that you make dishes from this one more than the other because its recipes are shorter and tend to be simpler. Both books are on my kitchen shelves but this is the one I reach for more often. The section on bruschetta toppings, for example, is inspirational and there are some "wow" desserts. South African cooks be warned that not all ingredients are that readily available though.
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