Five Quarters: Recipes and Notes from a Kitchen in Rome by Rachel Roddy Hardcove

Description: Five Quarters by Rachel Roddy Five Quarters - notebook, recipe book and kitchen diary. Award-winning Guardian Cook columnist, Rachel Roddy, merges her love of Italian cooking with a strong nostalgia for the family mealtimes of her English childhood. FORMAT Hardcover CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description This is a black and white reissue edition of Five Quarters, previously published as a full-colour cookbook in 2015. This edition contains no photography.WINNER of the Andre Simon Food Book Award in 2015.This is the most wonderful cookbook, especially - though not exclusively - if you like really reading cookbooks, possibly in bed. Rachel Roddy is a marvellous writer India KnightRoddy is a gifted storyteller, and a masterful hand with simple ingredients Guardian CookOf course I thought Rome was glorious, but I didnt want to stay. A month, three at most, then Id take a train back to Sicily to finish the clockwise journey Id interrupted, before moving even further southwards . . .Instead, captivated by the exhilarating life of Testaccio, the wedge-shaped quarter of Rome that centres round the old slaughterhouse and the bustling food market, Rachel decided to rent a flat and live there. Thus began an Italian adventure. Five Quarters charts a year in her small kitchen, shopping, cooking, eating and writing, capturing a uniquely domestic picture of life in this vibrant, charismatic city.Rachel shares over 100 simple and delicious recipes, offering you an authentic glimpse into daily Roman life. Combining her love of Italian food with a strong nostalgia for home and memories of growing up in England, this cookbook is a joy to read as well as to use in the kitchen.- Antipasti- Soup & Pasta- Meat & Fish- Vegetables- Dolci Author Biography Rachel Roddy is an award-winning food writer and weekly columnist in Guardian Feast. Rachels first book Five Quarters won the AndrA Simon Food Book Award in 2015, as well as the Guild of Food Writers First Book Award. Her second book, Two Kitchens, was published in 2017 and her third An A to Z of Pasta in 2021.She has written for the Financial Times, The New York Times, Vanity Fair, Internazionale and the Passenger magazine.She has lived in Testaccio in Rome since 2005 with her Sicilian partner and son.racheleats.wordpress.comFollow Rachel on Instagram @rachelaliceroddyFollow Rachel on X @racheleats Review I felt that prickle of excitement that you get when you get your hands on a book that you know will be a friend in the kitchen for months and years to come. *Matching Food and Wine*Like the best food writing Five Quarters is also a form of travel writing, as it provides a taste of history, memoir and literate display. It is a form of utopian thinking too, you could argue. This is how we might live, it implicitly says. Or at least look at the pictures of how we might live. Why do we love cookery books? Because the best ones are about so much more. Rachel Roddy - like Yotam [Ottolenghi] and Nigel [Slater] - is writing about a sense of place, about culinary culture and culture in general. In short, she is writing about life. The nice pictures are just a bonus. *Herald*Roddy is a gifted storyteller, and a masterful hand with simple ingredients. She brings to life in mouthwatering detail her culinary love and daily discoveries from a life lived well, of Roman markets and full family tables. *Guardian Cook*This is the most wonderful cookbook, especially - though not exclusively - if you like really reading cookbooks, possibly in bed. Rachel Roddy is a marvellous writer, and her ruminations about living in Rome - about markets, pasta-cooking water, being unfaithful to her usual butcher, Jane Grigson, the old Jewish ghetto, letting the meatballs rest, her daily life and so on, are total heaven (also, excellent restaurant recommendations). What I especially like is that she sounds like a real, complicated-in-a-good-way, intelligent and forthright person, not some ninny going Ooh, I love Italy, me while poncing about on a Vespa. She is proper. You feel like a friend is leading you by the hand, going Look at this, make this, and if you make it like this it will taste even better.The recipes are great. The vast majority are simple, family-friendly things you or I could make for supper with minimum fuss, and everyone would pat their stomachs delightedly and go Man, that was unbelievably good. Everything Ive cooked has been delicious, unfussy, robust and somehow honest. More than once Ive been surprised by the simplicity of the recipe and the complex deliciousness of the results. Very precise instructions, too. Plus, a beautiful-looking book, beautifully produced, which doesnt hurt. *India Knight*Just looking at the juicy apricots on the cover of this recipe and memory-filled love letter to Rome is enough to transport you to Italia - land of delicious, superior, mouth-watering cuisine... Five Quarters illuminates the colourful experience of a year in her Italian kitchen where she cooked, ate and wrote, with her notes contributing to the books 120 both Italian and British-influenced recipes. *Scottish Woman Magazine*This wonderful book, which came about as a result of an award-winning blog, charts a year of cooking in the tiny kitchen in her flat, shopping at local markets and writing about her culinary finds... an unputdownable book packed with the unpretentious home cooking, heady with the smells of Southern Italian markets. *Crumb Magazine*Rachel Roddys Five Quarters is by an English food blogger settled in Rome, who felt a natural affinity with the simplicity and resourcefulness of Roman cooking; this is a homage to the quarter in which she lives and the food of her neighbours. *Evening Standard*The writing beautifully describes a quiet domestic life centred around her kitchen, while the photography by Roddy herself is reminiscent of Dutch interiors. *Ham & High*Unpretentious, unusual and delicious. *Country Life*Five Quarters stands out as particularly considered and evocative...Impeccably researched and transportive, its a proper read, rather than a quick flick. *Sunday Times, picked as best cookbook 2015* Details ISBN1035414686 Author Rachel Roddy Pages 320 Publisher Headline Publishing Group Year 2024 ISBN-13 9781035414680 Imprint Headline Home Subtitle Recipes and Notes from a Kitchen in Rome Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 641.5945 Illustrations A few black and white illustrations Audience Children / Juvenile Format Hardcover Publication Date 2024-10-17 UK Release Date 2024-06-20 ISBN-10 1035414686 NZ Release Date 2024-10-17 AU Release Date 2024-10-17 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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