Sweet Myrtle & Bitter Honey: The Mediterranean Flavors of Sardinia
Efisio Farris, with Jim Eber, photos by Laurie Smith and Rohan Van Twest. . Rizzoli, $39.95 (272pp) ISBN 978-0-8478-2992-7
With his first cookbook, Farris leaps into the front ranks of culinary regionalist and troubadour. He's a transplant to Texas, a restaurateur and importer, but his taste buds still twinkle to the lusty, muscular primal cuisine of his ancestral Sardinia. He stirs up an appetite for simple pasta dishes in which the sauce determines the shape of the macarrones, and any number of compositions featuring spiced and herbed lamb, artichokes, olives and various seafood stews enriched with
Reviewed on: 10/01/2007
Genre: Nonfiction