'10 BEST CHRISTMAS COOKBOOKS 2016 - a must for keen bakers ' INDEPENDENT.CO.UK, December 2016
'This is a great book. Incredible food and full of Gennaro-style passion' - JAMIE OLIVER 'The king of Italian baking' - INDEPENDENT.CO.UK, September 2016 '
Gennaro s Italian Bakery is bliss...a generous-hearted cook' - London Evening Standard, Cookbooks for 2016, December 2016 Baking has always been Gennaro's passion. As a young boy, he would spend hours at his uncle's bakery just watching as he mixed, kneaded, pulled, shaped and baked, pushing and turning loaves in and out of his big wood-fired oven.
In his new book, Gennaro shares a selection of his favourite easy to create recipes for delicious bakes which can be found in a typical Italian bakery. From Parmesan Breadsticks and Pumpkin Bread , Focaccia , Pizza and Brioche , to Jam Tarts and Biscotti ; bring back the joy of home baking and those heavenly baking aromas with these irresistible recipes just like Nonna used to make. Gennaro Contaldo is widely known as the Italian legend who taught Jamie Oliver all he knows about Italian cooking.
Born in Minori on the Amalfi Coast, Gennaro's quintessentially Italian spirit and positive nature has made him a TV favourite. He regularly appears on BBC's Saturday Kitchen and other shows, as well as his own TV series, Two Greedy Italians on BBC2. He has authored more than seven cookbooks, has his own YouTube food channel, and is an ambassador for Citalia and Bertolli. He lives in east London with his wife and two daughters.
About the Author:
Gennaro Contaldo was born in Minori on the Amalfi coast, where he first started helping in local restaurant kitchens at the age of eight. He came to Britain in the late 1960s and spent his first years travelling around the country, working in local village restaurants and studying wild food. He then came to London where he worked as a chef in a number of restaurants before opening the award-winning 'Passione'.
We first met Gennaro Contaldo as the chef who inspired Jamie Oliver when they had worked together at Carluccio's. Since then Gennaro's quintessentially Italian spirit has made him a TV favourite and these days he divides his time between inspiring us to cook authentic Italian food through his books, magazine articles and television appearances, and working with Jamie on his 'Jamie's Italian' restaurants.
Gennaro lives in north-east London with his partner and their twin daughters.
