Red, White, and Greens: The Italian Way with Vegetables

Italians do the most wonderful things with vegetables. The ingenuity that yielded some of the world' s greatest art, architecture, design. literature, and fashion is also demonstrated in the Italian kitchen. In their cooking as well as their arts, the Italians take simple elements and make them into something transcendent.
Arranged alphabetically, from artichokes to zucchini, "Red, White & Greens" celebrates a rich cuisine born of both sunshine and poverty and offers a worthy primer to cooki...