The Cookbook
Four decades of Italian cooking. Finally in your kitchen.After forty years in professional kitchens across eighteen countries, Chef Giampaolo Maffini is writing the book he always wanted to cook from.
Not a glossy coffee-table collection of dishes you will never attempt. Not a simplified version of Italian cooking designed for the lowest common denominator. This is the real thing, honest Italian food, made with the techniques Giampaolo learned under Gualtiero Marchesi in Milan, adapted for the home kitchen without losing a single degree of integrity.
Classical Italian Technique
Recipes built on the foundations Giampaolo has spent a lifetime mastering, fresh pasta, slow-cooked sauces, perfectly balanced antipasti, and desserts that taste like a Sunday in Milan.
Ingredients First
Every recipe starts with what to look for in the market, not what to substitute. Giampaolo believes the best cooking begins before you turn on the stove.
A Chef’s Perspective
Professional precision without professional complexity. These recipes are designed to be cooked, eaten, and cooked again.
“I have been cooking for forty years. The food I am most proud of is the food I make simply, for family, for friends, with good ingredients and nothing hidden. That is the book I want to write.”
GIAMPAOLO MAFFINI
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Learn about the chef behind these recipes on About Chef Giampaolo Maffini.