The Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking (Hardback)

If this were the only cookbook you owned, neither you nor those you cooked for would ever get bored. - Nigella Lawson

Has yet to be bettered . . . my copy is splattered with gnocchi, tomato sauce, gravy and oil, but I wouldn't replace it for the world. It does what it says on the tin, and more. - Kate Colquhoun, The Best 50 Cookbooks, Independent

Brilliant. - Heston Blumenthal

There are dozens of Italian cookbooks on the market, but The Essentials Of Classic Italian Cooking is the only one you need to buy. No glossy photos; just 700 pages of wonderful recipes and instruction in basics such as bread-making. And all with the kind of detailed teaching left out of books that give more space to pictures than to text. A classic. - The Guardian

Truly indispensable. - Nigel Slater

When I don’t know what to do in life, I go to Marcella and she sorts me out - Ruth Rogers, chef and owner of The River Cafe, London