A Table in Venice: Recipes from My Home: A Cookbook [Hardcover]

Learn how to cook traditional Italian dishes as well as reinvented favorites, and bring Venice to life in your kitchen with these 100 Northern Italian recipes. Traveling by gondola, enjoying creamyrisi e bisifor lunch, splashing through streets that flood when the tide is high—this is everyday life for Skye McAlpine. She has lived in Venice for most of her life, moving there from London when she was six years old, and she’s learned from years of sharing meals with family and neighbors how to cook the Venetian way. Try your hand at Bigoli with Creamy Walnut Sauce, Scallops on the Shell with Pistachio Gratin, Grilled Radicchio with Pomegranate, and Chocolate and Amaretto Custard.“What she’s offering isn’t just instructions for what to cook, it’s how to have a more sustaining, vibrant, delicious existence.”-TASTE


“To eat well in Venice, you need to be invited to someone’s home, which is what McAlpine does in this book.”-Foodandwine.com 

“Readers will get an authentic taste of Venice with McAlpine's vignettes evoking joyous holidays, local cafes, and the simple pleasure of a stuffed sardine in the summer.” -Vogue.com SKYE McALPINE is the creator ofFrom My Dining Table,a blog where she writes about living and cooking in Venice. She and her blog have been featured inFood & Wine, The Guardian, Huffington Post, Vogue Living, Food52, The Kitchn, andCup of Jo. She lives in Venice with her husband and their son.From the Introduction

IN A QUIET CORNER OF VENICE, far off the beaten track and away from the crowds that cluster around the famous Piazza San Marco, stands a little house. Its walls are a dirty and crumbling pink plaster. Its windows, hidden behind watermelon-green shutters, look out over a sleepy canal. Were you wandering past, you most likely would not look at it twice, too belƒE