Pasta Grannies: Comfort Cooking by Vicky Bennison - Italian Cookery Book - Hardback

Details
Condition: BRAND NEW
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9781784885243
Publisher: Hardie Grant Books (UK)
Age Range: Adult / General Readership

Overview
Pasta Grannies: Comfort Cooking is the follow-up to Vicky Bennison's bestselling debut, gathering 60 heart-warming Italian family recipes from the nonne who have spent lifetimes cooking for the people they love. Rooted in the much-loved Pasta Grannies YouTube series, this hardback cookbook brings genuine regional Italian home cooking into British kitchens, pairing each recipe with the personal story of the grandmother who created it. It's a book for anyone who wants simple, soulful, crowd-pleasing food with real heritage behind it.

About the Book
Following on from Vicky Bennison's award-winning first Pasta Grannies cookbook, this second volume shifts the focus to comfort cooking - the dishes Italian grandmothers turn to when feeding family and friends. Across chapters covering pasta with meat, seafood and vegetables, pizzas, pastries and pies, rice and pulses, and recipes built around dairy, herbs, nuts and spices, readers meet the real women behind each dish. Ninety-one-year-old Pina from Liguria shares her chestnut gnocchi with walnut pesto, made using ingredients she grows herself, while ninety-nine-year-old Marietta offers a tagliatelle recipe that's less a fixed method and more a reflection of her Calabrian vegetable garden and the seasons. Bennison, a former travel writer and filmmaker who created the Pasta Grannies phenomenon, brings years of first-hand experience filming in Italian kitchens to every page, giving each recipe context, regional detail and practical tips that make authentic Italian cooking genuinely achievable at home. The result is a warm, generously illustrated hardback that celebrates food, family and the everyday rituals of Italian home cooking.

• 60 authentic, tried-and-tested Italian family recipes
• Real stories from the Italian grandmothers behind each dish
• Covers pasta, pizza, rice, pulses and pantry-based recipes
• Practical tips on ingredients, timings and substitutions for modern kitchens
• Beautiful hardback format, ideal as a keepsake or gift
• From the creator of the hugely popular Pasta Grannies YouTube channel

About the Author
Vicky Bennison is the creator of Pasta Grannies, the online project that has grown into a global phenomenon with millions of followers across YouTube, Instagram and Facebook. A former travel writer and international development worker, she began documenting elderly Italian women making pasta by hand, and the project has since been celebrated for preserving disappearing regional cooking traditions. Her first Pasta Grannies book was a bestseller, translated into several languages and award-winning.

Why You'll Love This Cookbook
Warm, generous and full of genuine Italian heritage, Pasta Grannies: Comfort Cooking turns everyday ingredients into soulful, satisfying meals - perfect for home cooks who love authentic recipes with real stories behind them.

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