Finally, here comes a book that combines the fresh, exuberant flavours of great Italian food with the ease and comfort of a slow cooker. Michele Scicolone, a best-selling author and an authority on Italian cooking, shows how good ingredients and simple techniques can lift the usual 'crockpot' fare into the dimension of fine food. Pasta with Meat and Mushroom Ragu, Osso Buco with Red Wine, Chicken with Peppers and Mushrooms: these are dishes that even the most discriminating cook can proudly serve to company, yet all are so carefree that anyone with just five or ten minutes of prep time can make them on a weekday and return to perfection. Simmered in the slow cooker, soups, stews, beans, grains, pasta sauces, and fish are as healthy as they are delicious. Polenta and risotto, 'stir-crazy' dishes that ordinarily need careful timing, are effortless. Meat loaves come out perfectly moist, tough cuts of meat turn succulent, and cheesecakes emerge flawless.

About the Author
Michele Scicolone is a food and travel writer and cooking teacher whose articles appear in the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Wine Spectator, and many other publications. She is the author of Savoring Italy, Pizza Any Way You Slice It! (coauthored with her husband, Charles, an Italian wine expert), A Fresh Taste of Italy, La Dolce Vita, and The Antipasto Table. She lives in New York City and visits Italy several times each year.


Book Information
ISBN 9780547003030
Author Michele Scicolone
Format Paperback
Page Count 240
Imprint Houghton Mifflin
Publisher Houghton Mifflin
Weight(grams) 652g
Dimensions(mm) 233mm * 193mm * 14mm