This is the be all and end all of basic Italian cooking titles, organised into themed chapters. It includes recipes on how to make pasta and all the most popular pasta dishes, a complete chapter on pesto and tomato sauces, making risotto, the antipasti, another on pizza, soups and minestrone, the typical dishes such as osso-bucco and all the secrets for the renowned Italian desserts (tiramisu, panacotta, semi freddo, panetonne) etc.