Book description
Restaurant entrepreneur Tony Allan and Italian chef Giorgio Locatelli
bring the vivacity and humour of their 12-year friendship to a brilliant
partnership in the kitchen, combining a professional passion for the
best of fresh, affordable ingredients with their home lives amongst
family and good friends.
Tony loves to shoot, hunt and fish. Giorgio loves to sizzle, simmer and
sauté. Together they are double dynamite, exploding with outspoken
opinions, original ideas and inspiring, relevant recipes that will have
you cooking up a feast before you know it.
When good old British know-how gets together with Italian style and
charm in the overheated confines of the kitchen, anything happen.
With Tony and Giorgio in your kitchen, you'll never again be stuck for
something to feed your kids (lasagna with meat sauce, tuna burger);
something to feed your family (Spanish tortilla, penne with walnut
sauce); and something to feed your friends (sea bass in salt crust,
boned stuffed turbot with parmesan beans).
Not since Peter Sellers met Sophia Loren have Anglo-Italian relations
been celebrated with such humour, spirit, and cultural one-upmanship. So
it's salt beef versus vitello tonnato at dawn; English fish soup versus
Italian fish stew; poached wild salmon versus linguine with crab, and
sherry trifle versus tiramisu.
Sheer, unadulterated joy and a passion for good, simple food shine
through every page of this brilliantly original cookery book, which
accompanies their blockbuster series broadcast in 2003. After a short
stint in catering, leading entrepreneur Tony Allan sensed a gap in the
market, and established his own fish suppliers: Cutty now supplies fish
to most of the capital's top restaurants. He now heads Bank and fish!
chains of restaurants. Michelin-starred Giorgio Locatelli is one of
Britain's best known Italian chefs. He began his career at his family's
restaurant in Italy. Chef-Patron of Zefferano and Cecconi, his own
restaurant, Locanda Locatelli opened in early 2002 to a storm of praise
and press coverage.
