Christopher Hirsheimer - Canal House Cooking Volumes 7–8: La Dolce Vita and Pronto!

Canal House Cooking Volumes 78

La Dolce Vita and Pronto!

Christopher Hirsheimer and Melissa Hamilton

CONTENTS

About the Authors

Christopher Hirsheimer served as food and design editor for Metropolitan Home magazine, and was one of the founders of Saveur magazine, where she was executive editor. She is a writer and a photographer.

Melissa Hamilton cofounded the restaurant Hamiltons Grill Room in Lambertville, New Jersey, where she served as executive chef. She worked at Martha Stewart Living, Cooks Illustrated, and at Saveur as the food editor.

Copyright 2011 by Christopher Hirsheimer & Melissa Hamilton

Photographs copyright 2011 by Christopher Hirsheimer

Illustrations copyright 2011 by Melissa Hamilton

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any manner whatsoever without written permission from the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews.

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Book design by Canal House, a group of artists who collaborate on design projects.

This book was designed by Melissa Hamilton, Christopher Hirsheimer & Teresa Hopkins.

Edited by Margo True & Copyedited by Valerie Saint-Rossy.

Editorial assistance by Julia Lee & Julie Sproesser.

Photos credits

Andre Baranowski, Julia Lee

With great appreciation to Colman Andrews for The Best Grocery Store in the World

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C ANAL H OUSE C OOKBOOKS

Founded by Melissa Hamilton, a renowned food stylist, and Christopher Hirsheimer, an award-winning photographer, Canal House Cooking celebrates the everyday practice of simple cooking and the enjoyment of eating. Canal House Cooking is known for its inspiring recipes, friendly and knowledgeable voice, and drop-dead gorgeous photographs, and has been featured in a variety of publications including O, the Oprah Magazine, Bon Apptit, the New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal. Christopher and Melissas daily blog, Canal House Cooks Lunch, has thousands of daily followers interested in what these two women have cooked up that day.

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Canal House Cooking

La Dolce Vita

Welcome to Canal House our studio, workshop, dining room, office, kitchen, and atelier devoted to good ideas and good work relating to the world of food. We write, photograph, design, and paint, but in our hearts we both think of ourselves as cooks first.

Our loft studio is in an old red brick warehouse. A beautiful lazy canal runs alongside the building. We have a simple galley kitchen. Two small apartment-size stoves sit snugly side by side against a white tiled wall. We have a dishwasher, but prefer to hand wash the dishes so we can look out of the tall window next to the sink and see the ducks swimming in the canal or watch the raindrops splashing into the water.

And every day we cook. Starting in the morning we tell each other what we made for dinner the night before. Midday, we stop our work, set the table simply with paper napkins, and have lunch. We cook seasonally because thats what makes sense. So it came naturally to write down what we cook. The recipes in our books are what we make for ourselves and our families all year long. If you cook your way through a few, youll see that who we are comes right through in the pages: that we are crazy for tomatoes in summer, make braises and stews all fall, and turn oranges into marmalade in winter.