Bottega Favorita [Hb]

Description

In this companion to his first, best-selling cookbook, the beloved Southern chef / Frank Stitt travels to Italy and brings the best of Mediterranean cuisine back home. And leave it to Stitt to make Italian cuisine his own combining the flavours of Italy with ingredient from close to home.This appealing new cookbook includes the best of the Southern-influenced Italian recipes he has served at his Birmingham, Alabama, restaurant Bottega Restaurant and Cafe, for the last two decades - Tomato Chutney and Roasted Sweet Pepper Pizza, Lamb Shanks with Sweet Peas and Mint, and fabulous desserts including Zabaglione Meringue cake. Accompanied by sweet recollections of his journeys to Italy, this inspiring and accessible cookbook proves once again why the novelist Pat Conroy calls Stitt 'the best chef in America'.

Frank Stitt is the chef and owner of Highlands Bar and Grill--which won the 2018 James Beard Awards for Outstanding Restaurant and Outstanding Pastry Chef--Bottega Restaurant and Caf , and Chez Fonfon, all located in Birmingham, Alabama. He has won the James Beard Award for the Best Chef of the Southeast and has been inducted into the James Beard Foundation's "Who's Who of Food and Beverage." He received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Southern Foodways Alliance for his elevation of Southern cuisine and his early advocacy of locally grown food. He is the author of Frank Stitt's Southern Table and Frank Stitt's Bottega Favorita.