Ali Babà and the forty raccoons E-Book

Cinzia Romanazzi Grillo

• Herausgeber: Youcanprint
• Kategorie: Lebensstil
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2015

Beschreibung

Cinzia Romanazzi con questo libro desidera rinnovare antiche pietanze della cucina araba, come l’hummus, il falafel, etc., della quale ha subito il fascino durante le sue lunghe permanenze nei Paesi del Golfo. Intende inoltre proporre alcuni piatti della cucina tradizionale italiana, come l’amatriciana o la carbonara, rielaborati per il mondo musulmano senza l’uso di alcol e maiale. Le numerose e succulente cene preparate per Sceicchi e Sultani hanno dato vita al libro dal titolo scherzoso di “Ali Babà e i 40 procioni” per significare quanto la meridionalità dell’autrice sia racchiusa in queste pagine. Oltre ad essere un libro di ricette, l’autrice racconta infatti alcuni divertenti episodi della sua infanzia in Puglia. Data l’internazionalità del prodotto, la scrittrice lo ha realizzato in inglese per renderlo comprensibile anche a tutto il mondo arabo. Il risultato è una sorta di fusione tra i sapori forti arabi e quelli tradizionali della cucina italiana. Grazie a tutti.

Leseprobe

Cinzia Romanazzi Grillo

ALI BABA’ AND THE FORTY RACCOONS

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To my father and my mother who gave me life

To my son who has given me the joy of living it

Smile and life will smile at you!

INTRODUCTION

THE JOYS OF FOOD (ALIMENTARY REFLECTIONS)

A healthy life, a balanced diet, sport, few calories, no fats - how boring! Television, radio, the newspapers recommend them at least ten times a day as do our dearest and most affectionate girlfriends, who inform us with a mocking smile that we have put three kilos on our hips since last year - how sweet of them! We now live obsessed with diets and that terrible instrument of torture - the bathroom scales - which stare at us every morning and drag us onto their horrible transparent top every time we make our way to the bathroom. What a nightmare to start the day with!

Why then write a cookbook full of temptations and forbidden dreams? Simply because in a world that is going to the dogs lunch and dinner are those rare moments when everyone is really cheerful and carefree, moments when we make peace with ourselves and the world forgetting everything else. Even statesmen, negotiating after a war, do it more successfully after a banquet. Food unites people like the blended ingredients of a good sauce.

Have you ever seen anyone cry at table before a rich and lavish meal? I have… A month ago when everyone was enjoying my famous lasagne, my cousin Mafalda, who was on a diet, had only a carrot, a tomato and a cucumber – undressed - on her plate.

She wept, poor thing! How she would have loved a world where models wearing fabulous clothes are curvaceous girls, rather than the spectral figures we see who feed on an egg and three apples a day - and don’t love themselves.

Throughout my life I have inflated and deflated like a balloon every time I have tried to slim; so, to free myself from that stress , I have written and even tasted the 100-odd recipes presented here…. a real treat… Even the cover of the book, when I prepared 7kg of spaghetti alla bolognese, cocked a snook at diets; and what a pleasure, when the photographer had finished immortalising us, to tuck into that delicious dish with my girlfriends!

My grandmother always used to say that meat makes beautiful bones and perhaps she was right…

Down with diets! Down with hunger!

Up with life! Up with food!

Bon appétit!

Cinzia e Jeunevieve Makaping, famous anthropologist native of Camerun