Gennaro's Cucina: A cookbook of classic Italian recipes that help to budget during a cost-of-living crisis

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This is an easy pick for those looking to expand their Italian repertoire without breaking the bank. Biography: Gennaro Contaldo's warmth, Italian spirit and sense of fun have led him to be one of the UK's most-loved chefs. A wonderful and welcome addition to the canon of Italian cuisine, filled with gorgeous photography … Focusing on Italian cucina povera, or the cuisine of the poor, celebrated chef Contaldo (Gennaro’s Limoni) offers up simple but hearty dishes to prepare … Expanding on the concept of not wasting food, Contaldo also offers suggestions for using up leftovers. Restricted choice of scarce ingredients meant they learned the value what they had, how to cook dishes lovingly, and use imaginative methods of preservation to make simple dishes go far: including salting, drying and curing.

Within the pages of this inspiring cookbook, Gennaro escorts you through the fundamentals of regional Italian staples, transforming them into exquisite meals. I have followed a lot of Gennaros food tube recipes, but find this book lacking in addressing the subject - 'saving money and using every scrap'.The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network. In an age marked by excessive convenience and mounting concerns about disposable food waste, Gennaro’s Cucina emerges as a timely beacon. Cucina povera’ (poor kitchen) is the sort of cooking that traditionally fed the poorer communities in Italy, but it remains the basis of many much-loved Italian dishes today. With tips and ideas of what to do with leftovers, Gennaro helps home cooks turn humble ingredients into nourishing feasts without taste sacrifice. He is renowned for being a mentor to Jamie Oliver and teaching him, with Carluccio, everything Jamie knows about Italian cooking.

In an era of excessive convenience and disposable food waste, 'Gennaro's Cucina' could not come at a better time.Cucina povera’ is the food that traditionally fed the poor of Italy yet remains the basis of most Italian dishes we love to eat today.