In the life of an Italian, food is centred around the family being together. It has the ability to bring back and create the most wonderful memories in life, is a way to show love, something to be proud of, and for some, a family secret to be guarded. I have had a passion for cooking ever since I picked up a mixing bowl for the first time in my early teens to bake a cake. In 2018, I launched the Italian Spoon website which I am proud to say is an ever-growing Italian Food recipe and blogging website. In 2019, I asked myself what’s the next project. I knew then that my commitment to continuously create outstanding home cooked recipes left a lasting impression on guests in my home. This was something that inspired me to write a book about Italian entertaining.

Celebrations call for recipes that impress. It wouldn’t be Christmas or Easter without recipes from my new book The Italian Entertaining cookbook. It has many useful tips and traditional Italian recipes that are suitable for entertaining or everyday home cooking. With 100 recipes and countless cook’s tips, this cookbook will have you planning a feast like a true Italian. It features a collection of Italian recipes that make it easy for home cooks.

Without giving away too much, there are a few basic principles to entertaining like an Italian. The first rule for an Italian feast is to create super impressive food but keep it simple. Simple is not always easy and luckily, we have interpreted nonna’s ‘cucinare a occhio’, meaning cooking by eye into precision measurements and specific cooking instructions. We have translated nonna’s vague references to ingredients like ‘quanto basta’, meaning just enough into real quantities and cooking methods you can actually use. I have chosen the best recipes for this cookbook based on traditions from various regions of Italy. Whether you are cooking for 4 or more than 20 people, the tips throughout The Italian Entertaining cookbook will help you to host a great festive meal. Whether your serving style is buffet or plated for the occasion, I will show you how to cook delicious food and desserts. One sentence sums it up. “If you have a kitchen, Italian spoon and The Italian Entertaining cookbook, you have everything you need to entertain with style.”

Saluti (cheers) to the release of the The Italian Entertaining cookbook and many more to come.

Order the Paperback or Kindle Version of The Italian Entertaining cookbook today!

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Vanessa Bottaro

Author, Founder and Creative Director at Italian Spoon

In my eyes, Italian cuisine is love on a plate.

Vanessa is Creative Director of the Italian Spoon website and Author of The Italian entertaining cookbook, a collection of home-style Italian recipes and tips for entertaining in true Italian-style. In addition to cooking and taking photographs, Vanessa writes the recipes and blogs to bring the love of Italian cooking to life! The collection of recipes and blogs on the website have been inspired by travels to Italy and desire to share what she has learnt from the great ‘Mamma’s and ‘Nonna’s in her life!

Vanessa is an entrepreneur and wife to husband Simone and the mother of two beautiful kids Dante and Mia. Even so she was born and lives in Melbourne Australia, Vanessa has a deep connection to Italy. Perhaps it is the food, or maybe it is because it is the place where Vanessa met the love of her life, Simone to whom she has been happily married for so many years.

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