Made in Italy

Giorgio Locatelli is quite simply the best Italian chef: his cuisine is pure Italian, his ingredients are seasonal, the olive oil is pure, the bread is homemade. Locatelli himself unites in his person all that you expect from a genuine Italian top and star chef: excellent skill, rousing temperament and raw charm.

On more than 600 pages Locatelli has written down 180 recipes - for antipasti and zuppa, risotto and pasta, pesce and carne as well as dolci - in detail, so that everything tastes just like in Italy. However, creativity in the kitchen is always important, to cook according to Locatelli's own style - with Italian passion, down-to-earth and generous. In his plea for original, good food, Locatelli repeatedly puts himself in the perspective of the non-Italian and makes the Italian art of cooking and enjoyment tangible.

His enthusiasm and personal devotion also becomes clear when he devotes himself in detail to e.g. risotto or pasta, when he lovingly shows the preparation of bread, when he describes the individual steps in detail, with well thought-out step photos and professional tricks interspersed en passant again and again. Just as devoted and at the same time full of information are the detailed descriptions of the most important products of Italian cuisine - from anchovies, garlic and peaches to white truffles.

Thus Made in Italy (awarded the Gourmand World Cookbook Award for best Italian cookbook) brings home Italy's love of cooking and life and shows in a nonchalant way how to celebrate life every day anew and enjoy it to the full.