Travel through Italy’s foodie landscape with The Silver Spoon
Read about 10 remarkable regions (and try one simple recipe) courtesy of our legendary Italian cookbook.
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A window into the heart of Italian home cooking
The Silver Spoon represents more than a collection of recipes. These bestselling cookbooks embody the Italian culinary traditions of seasonality, regionality, simplicity, and quality ingredients.
From the original 'Red Edition' to newer volumes in the series, The Silver Spoon books invite home cooks around the world to experience an authentic taste of Italy.
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A home cook's guide to Italy
Since its inception, The Silver Spoon series has been a trusted guide in Italian cooking, showcasing the importance of regional recipes in preserving Italy’s culinary heritage.
The Regional Italian Cookbook takes readers and home cooks on a mouth-watering journey across the country's twenty regions, each of which has its own unique gastronomic identity, shaped by local ingredients, climate, and cultural influences.
Home cooks will discover 160 recipes organized by region, exploring the rich and diverse culinary heritage of Italy: a reflection of its complex history, varied geography, and deep-rooted traditions.
From pasta dishes drenched in rich sauces to simple, fresh salads bursting with flavor, every recipe is designed to inspire you to cook with confidence and creativity and remind you that cooking is not just about the result, but the journey of bringing people together. Along the way, you’ll find out how local ingredients, climate, history, and culture impact Italy’s culinary expression.
RECIPES
Trofie with Pesto
Featured in The Silver Spoon Classic
While you may not be gazing upon the sunlight warming a Tuscan hillside kitchen vegetable garden, (allow us to dream), that’s not to say you can’t create great-tasting Italian dishes at home – wherever home may be.
In our Silver Spoon cookbook series, easy-to-follow recipes encourage experimentation while respecting traditional methods.
Try this quintessential Ligurian dish featuring trofie, an iconic pasta shape believed to have originated in the vicinity of Golfo Paradiso, paired with fresh, flavorful pesto.
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About the series
The Silver Spoon, or Il Cucchiaio d'Argento, is Italy's go-to encyclopedia of home cooking. First published in the mid-1900s, the iconic cookbook covers the length and breadth of Italy, featuring 2,000 authentic recipes deeply rooted in the country's rich food culture.
In 2005, Phaidon published the first non-Italian translation of The Silver Spoon, selling more than 300,000 copies of the English edition in just three months. Hailed as 'the one-volume encyclopedia of Italian home cookery' (Wall Street Journal) and 'the most successful Italian cookbook of all time' (Financial Times), the book has since sold over 2 million copies in 15 languages around the world.
Today, The Silver Spoon series includes the original 'red edition' alongside newer volumes such as The Vegetarian Silver Spoon, The Chocolate Spoon, The Italian Bakery, and The Silver Spoon for Children, among others.
'The Silver Spoon is a culinary compass, guiding generations through the soul of Italian cooking. In its pages, readers discovered not just our recipes, but the poetry of our seasons, a taste of our values, our rituals, our grandmothers’ hands, and the stories simmering behind every dish.' – Massimo Bottura
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