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    The Risotto Guru: Adventures in eating Italian
    The Risotto Guru: Adventures in eating Italian
    The Risotto Guru: Adventures in eating Italian
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    The Risotto Guru: Adventures in eating Italian

    By Laura Fraser

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    A Sardinian wedding feast, the search for the perfect seaside pasta with wild fennel, meeting a risotto master: Laura Fraser journeys from the SpaghettiOs of her American childhood to savor the best of Italian cuisine and the culture that cooked it up. Using the same dreamy, delicious type of prose that made An Italian Affair a best-selling memoir, these essays will delight readers who loved that book, and all who love Italian food and culture. Sumptuous descriptions of Italian meals—and the passion that goes into them—make this e-book a mouthwatering, uplifting pleasure. In “Italy in 17 Courses,” Fraser uses the pace and order of the dishes in a wedding feast to muse on her own introduction to Italian food, and how it changed her from a diet-obsessed vegetarian to a pasta and pancetta connoisseur. “An Affair to Remember” explores themes of food and nostalgia, and how a good meal can lift the spirit. In “The Risotto Guru,” Fraser writes a funny spoof of New Age gurus as she searches to perfect her own risotto. Warning: Do not read on an empty stomach. Laura Fraser is a San Francisco–based journalist and writing mentor whose latest travel memoir, All Over the Map, is a sequel to her 2001 New York Times best seller, An Italian Affair. She is the cofounder and editorial director of Shebooks. This is a short e-book published by Shebooks--high quality fiction, memoir, and journalism for women, by women. For more information, visit http://shebooks.net.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherShebooks
    Release dateDec 10, 2013
    ISBN9781940838069
    The Risotto Guru: Adventures in eating Italian
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    Laura Fraser

    Laura Fraser is a San Francisco–based journalist and writing mentor whose latest travel memoir, All Over the Map, is a sequel to her 2001 New York Times best seller, An Italian Affair. She was the cofounder and editorial director of Shebooks.

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      The Risotto Guru - Laura Fraser

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      Italy in 17 Courses

      Aperitivi

      Stuzzichini, olive

      It is August in Sardinia, where Italian vacationers sleep late, down an espresso, and then take to the beaches, packing themselves together like slippery fish in a tin. Historically, Sardinians—invaded frequently and from all sides—cozied into the interior; beach property was considered so worthless that only the women inherited the spectacular cliffs and wide expanses of sand. Today, like everyone else, I’m splashing around and getting abbronzata at the beach.

      In the evening, the beachgoers gather at bars, laughing and teasing each other as only Sards can, with increasing drunkenness and daring, until nearly dawn. I’m visiting my friend Beppe, who brings me along to meet his friends, which means almost everyone between the ages of 18 and 50 from Sassari and Sorso. He introduces me to Giovanna and Giuliano and tells me they are getting married on Saturday. They kiss me on the cheeks and ask where I’m from. I say San Francisco, where Beppe is currently living, where friends called me in a panic several years ago because they needed someone to come speak Italian to this guy who had arrived to stay on their couch and cook seafood pasta. Beppe explains we became friends even though I am the most napoletano American he’s ever met, by which he means conniving and ball-busting, but which I explain is because I make such good pizza.

      Giovanna and Giuliano invite me to their wedding.

      I’m startled: at home in the United States, people agonize over the guest list, counting every head at $120, cutting cousins and former colleagues, wondering who will be insulted and who will send a present anyway. They meet weeks in advance with caterers who will dole out four ounces of salmon for every guest next to three baby rosemary potatoes, a dollop of spinach, and one white roll. There is no inviting of strangers to a wedding at the last minute. Brides, paying parents, wedding planners, place card letterers: everyone would freak out.

      It would be a pleasure, says Giovanna, with a smile that says she means it and would even be sad if I were still in the country and not attending on Saturday.

      "Un gran piacere," I say, not only because they are such a charming couple but because (being a little napoletana) I know a wedding meal in Sardinia—perhaps my favorite destination among hundreds of beloved food destinations in Italy—will be the ultimate culinary pleasure.

      The day of the wedding, I shop, because the only nice dress I brought is purple, and Beppe’s mother informs me that purple brings bad luck to a wedding, and under no circumstances may I wear that dress. I wander around the streets of Alghero, a little piece of Spain in Sardinia, until I find a shop with

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