# Risotto With Nettles

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- Authors: [Anna Del Conte](https://www.bookquiver.com/anna-del-conte)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2010-08-05

## Description

A wonderful, evocative memoir by the woman who first brought Italian cooking to Britain and fuelled a culinary revolution. 'Anyone who cooks should have Anna's books, it is the simple truth' Nigella Lawson Born in Milan, Anna del Conte grew up in Italy in a gentler time. When war came to Italy everything changed: her family had to abandon their apartment and the city for the countryside, where the peasants still ate well, but life was dangerous... As a teenager, Anna became used to throwing herself into a ditch as the strafing planes flew over, and was imprisoned, twice. Her story is informed and enlivened by the food and memories of her native land - from lemon granita to wartime risotto with nettles, from vitello tonnato to horsemeat roll, from pastas to porcini. Anna arrived in England in 1949 to a culinary wasteland. She married an Englishman and stayed on, and while bringing up her children, she wrote books which inspired a new generation of cooks. This is a memoir of a life seen through food - each chapter rounded off with mouthwatering recipes.

## Editions

### Risotto With Nettles

- Publisher: vintage_digital
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-14-4811-467-2
- Published: 2011-12-31
- Language: en_GB

### Risotto With Nettles

- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-00-9950-599-0
- Pages: 336
- Published: 2010-08-05
- Language: en_GB