Rustic Italian Food

583 Pages·2011·11.02 MB·English

by  Marc Vetri

Copyright © 2011 by Marc Vetri
Photographs copyright © 2011 by Kelly Campbell
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Vetri, Marc.
Rustic Italian food / Marc Vetri with David Joachim ; beverage notes by
Jeff Benjamin ; photography by Kelly Campbell ; foreword by Mario Batali.
p. cm.
Summary: “The second cookbook from acclaimed Philadelphia chef Marc Vetri, featuring recipes
for staples of the hand-crafted Italian Kitchen like bread, pasta, pizza, and salumi”— Provided by
publisher.
1. Cooking, Italian. 2. Cookbooks. I. Joachim, David. II. Title.
TX723.V484 2011
641.5945—dc23
2011015301
eISBN: 978-1-60774079-7
Cover design by Nancy Austin
Prop styling by Sarah Cave and Theo Vamvounakis
v3.1

To the love of my life, Megan,
who taught me that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts
and to my three little gnocchis,
Maurice, Catherine, and Mario

{ CONTENTS }
Foreword by Mario Batali
Introduction: A Return to Real Cooking
• • •
Bread and Pizza
Pastas
Salumi
Pickles and Preserves
Meats and Fish
Simple Vegetables and Sides
Rustic Desserts
Sauces and Other Basics
• • •
Sources
Acknowledgments
Index

The line it is drawn
The curse it is cast
The slow one now
Will later be fast
As the present now
Will later be past
The order is
Rapidly fadin’.
And the first one now
Will later be last
For the times they are a-changin’.
—Bob Dylan, 1964
Hip: Informed, up-to-date, fashionable, contemporary, relevant. Being modern in dress,
attitude and interests. From “hepi,” meaning “well-informed” from the West African
language of Wolof.
—URBAN DICTIONARY, 2011
FOREWORD
BY MARIO BATALI
IT SEEMS THAT NEARLY every
month there is a new place in
town, mine or yours, with some