by Kenedy, Jacob
Illustrations/Photography by: Sooley, Howard

Published in 2011 by Bloomsbury USA, New York
ISBN: 1608194884
Edition: First U.S.
Binding: Hardback
Condition: As new
Dust Jacket included. Condition of Dust Jacket: Fine
Comments: When Jacob Kenedy (and yes, it’s spelled with one “n”) opened his upscale Italian restaurant, Bocca di Lupo, in London in 2009, it was a smash hit, and it is still going strong all these years later. It specializes in regional Italian cooking, and Kenedy lists the provinces where he found the recipes for his dishes along with the names of the dishes on the menu. Two years later, he published this cookbook, “Bocca Cookbook.” The “Independent on Sunday” newspaper called it one of “the year's most fashionable cookbooks” when it had its writers whip up dishes from a year-end sampler of of the year’s top cookbooks in December of that year. In the case of the writer assigned to “Bocca Cookbook,” he opted for a full three-course dinner, seemingly designed both to test himself and his guests to the limit: Suppli al Telefono, a kind of rice croquette from the Lazio region, which centers on Rome; Trippa alla Romana, a tripe dish, also from Rome; and, for desert, Sanguinaccio (from Calabria), a chilled pudding featuring chocolate, Marsala, candied orange peel…and pig’s blood. With other recipes in the cookbook going into detail about how to make your own sausage at home, including how to stuff it into casings, and including ingredients such as squab or zucchini flowers, obviously, this is a book for adventurous cooks! On the other hand, you can’t get much easier—or probably better—than Kenedy’s Bread and Vegetable Soup from Puglia or his Blood Orange, Red Onion and Oregano Salad from Sicily. The book is amply illustrated with gorgeous full-color photographs. Most of these are full-page pictures, and while many are of the dishes described, many are simply of Italy, particularly of the markets and harbors and kitchens and orchards from which its food comes.

This volume is in excellent condition and, in fact, may never have been used. The dust jacket show some scuffing from shelf wear on the covers and there is the tiniest of closed tears on the bottom rear cover of the dust jacket. The binding of the book itself, on the other hand, only shows some light bumping on the bottom of the spine. There are no marks, tears, or creases on any of the pages and the text block is tight and square. This copy is a first U.S. edition and appears to be a first printing—unusually, the copyright page is at the end of the book instead of at the front. See our photos.

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