Peace, Love, and Pasta : Simple and Elegant Recipes From a Chef's Home Kitchen

From award-winning chef and Food Network personality Scott Conant, a cookbook of restaurant-quality Italian meals that you can make easily in your home kitchen Thirty-five years into an illustrious career of restaurant openings across the country, widespread acclaim, and frequent appearances on the Food Network’s Chopped and many other shows, Scott Conant has returned home to create his most personal cookbook yet. Meals cooked from simple, fresh ingredients were staples of Conant’s childhood in a New England family with roots in Southern Italy. From his grandparents’ garden to the dinner table, he learned early on to appreciate the nuances of different flavors and ingredients, and the strong connection between food and family. Focusing on these foods Conant grew up with and the ones he makes for his loved ones today, Peace, Love, and Pasta compiles simple, fresh, and flavorful Italian recipes for the home cook to bring to their own family’s table. These recipes are built on the art of cooking for love, fascination with flavors and ingredients, and the simple pleasures of taste and conviviality. From award-winning chef and Food Network personality Scott Conant, Peace, Love, and Pasta is a cookbook of restaurant-quality Italian meals that you can make easily in your home kitchen. Behind his universally loved charisma, Scott Conant is one of the best cooks I know. His gutsy, Italian-inspired recipes on these pages will make any home cooks mouth water.Bobby Flay Thirty-five years into an illustrious career of restaurant openings across the country, widespread acclaim, and frequent appearances on the Food Networks Chopped and many other shows, Scott Conant has returned home to create his most personal cookbook yet. Meals cooked from simple, fresh ingredients were staples of Conants childhood in a New England family with roots in Southern Italy. From his grandparents garden to the dinner table, Conants recipes appreciate the nuances of different flavors and ingredients, and the strong connection between food and Focusing on these foods Conant grew up with and the ones he makes for his loved ones today, Peace, Love, and Pasta compiles simple, fresh, and flavorful Italian recipes for the home cook to bring to their own familys table. These recipes are built on the art of cooking for love, fascination with flavors and ingredients, and the simple pleasures of taste and conviviality. Includes Color Photographs Introduction: In Praise of Simplicity Chapter 1. Simple Staples Chapter 2. A Few Things for the Morning Chapter 3. Soups, Salads, and Antipasti Chapter 4. Pasta, Baby Chapter 5. Fish and Seafood Chapter 6. The Meat Chapter 7. Vegetables and Legumes Chapter 8. For the Whole Family Chapter 9. Detour to Turkish Home Cooking Chapter 10. Sweets Coda Acknowledgments Index of Searchable Terms Copyright Page xhtml/backcover.xhtml In his most personal cookbook yet, Conant shares recipes for restaurant-quality Italian meals that you can make easily in your home kitchen. He learned early on to appreciate the nuances of different flavors in using simple, fresh ingredients over canned or frozen. And celebrates the strong connection between food and family. -- adapted from back cover