From Mario Batali, superstar chef and author of Molto Italiano, comes the ultimate handbook on Italian grilling, which will become an instant must-have cookbook for home grillers.
Easy to use and filled with simple recipes, Mario Batali's new grilling handbook takes the mystery out of making tasty, simple, smoky Italian food. In addition to the eighty recipes and the sixty full-color photographs, Italian Grill includes helpful information on different heat-source options, grilling techniques, and essential equipment. As in Molto Italiano, Batali's distinctive voice provides a historical and cultural perspective as well.
Italian Grill features appetizers; pizza and flatbreads; fish and shellfish; poultry; meat; and vegetables. The delicious recipes include Fennel with Sambuca and Grapefruit; Guinea Hen Breasts with Rosemary and Pesto; Baby Octopus with Gigante Beans and Olive-Orange Vinaigrette; and Rosticciana, Italian-Style Ribs.
What Others Say
Packed with easy grilling recipes and a focus on smoky Italian food
Packed with easy grilling recipes and a focus on smoky Italian food, along with some sixty color photos, ITALIAN GRILL packs in details on equipment, grilling techniques, and recipes alike, features appetizers, pizzas, fish and vegetables as well as the usual grilled meats, and provides unusual regional Italian dishes as well, such as Octopus and Warm Potato Salad. Color photos by Beatriz da Costa pack interest and vibrant color into an outstanding collection highly recommended for any library strong in either grilling or Italian cookbooks.
Diane C. Donovan
California Bookwatch
Believe piastra, but take grill with a huge grain of salt
After a week or so with Mario Batali's "Italian Grill", I can give you a good rule of thumb: Everything he says involving a piastra (or which might possibly involve a piastra) is dead on. Everything he says otherwise you should seriously question in regard to cooking times/temperatures.
When Mario says to make the piastra HOT, he means it. When there are recipes like the thick onion slices with lemon thyme, that presumably could be cooked on the piastra even though it isn't mentioned in the recipe, they should be cooked hot hot HOT on the piastra. When you follow his prep and his timings on these recipes, you will find yourself in Italian grill nirvana. Every time.
But when there are rotisserie or grill recipes such ... Read More
Easy grilling!
Easy but very tasty recipes. It's made my summer grilling a favorite with my friends.
Mario Batali Italian Grill
We saw this cookbook at a friends house and had to have a copy. Since we're living in our RV while we're constructing our house, the grill has become crucial. The recipes are interesting and well detailed. The stone cooking method (Piastra) has given me a whole new dimension with the grill. Also, this is the only cookbook that I've seen that gives a specific recipe for King Mackeral, which is readily available here. The photography is superb. We're very pleased with this purchase!
GREAT cookbook!
This cookbook has so much to offer! I gave it my father as a gift and every time I go home now he has something new to cook out of it and it gets more and more delicious ! I know the cookbook will satisfy even the beginner cook!
