My Cousin Rosa by Rosa Mitchell

This book is a wonderful concoction of connections: family history, awareness of the earth, stories within a community - and of course, intermingling flavours. Rosa Mitchell introduces her cookbook with memories of a childhood in Sicily, her Grandparents, and her family's migration to country Australia. With this, Mitchell welcomes us inside her family home and kitchen, and with each recipe she shares a new detail or experience found with the people there. For Mitchell, 'making food is not just something we do to survive; it's the coming together and sharing, chatting and arguing over the methods and superstitions'. Mitchell often uses fresh and found produce, including cardoons and fennel still growing wild on Melbourne roadsides and fresh home-laid chicken's eggs.

When a young girl and her family move from Sicily to country Australia, it is a surprisingly small step in kitchen miles. The tablecloth and stockpot are the same, cardoons and fennel still grow wild on the roadside and the extended family and neighbours gather to make salami in the barn once a year. My Cousin Rosa captures the atmosphere, experiences and recipes of Rosa Mitchell's Sicilian kitchen. Rosa's food is very special: soulful, traditional, family-orientated and utterly authentic. In this beautiful book, her thoughts on life, both Australian and Sicilian, are scattered among the recipes like biscotti crumbs. Chapters offer recipes for antipasto, soup, pasta, meat dishes, vegetables and desserts. The recipes are complemented by stunning photography of both finished dishes and from throughout the preparation process, be that the making of salami the traditional way or the preparation of fresh cannelloni. Gorgeous illustrations and family photographs complete the book.

Rosa Mitchell is passionate about food and how it links history, tradition, family and friends. Rosa was a founding member of Slow Food Victoria and together with her husband Colin Mitchell, runs a small vineyard in Central Victoria specialising in Italian varietal wines. Rosa is currently chef at the highly acclaimed Journal Canteen cafe in Flinders Lane, Melbourne, and teaches cooking classes at Melbourne's Centre for Adult Education (CAE).

Features

• ISBN: 978174196363
• Format: Hardcover
• Number Of Pages: 240