Polenta

By Brigit Binns

Originally a peasant dish, polenta is now showing up on the best restaurant menus in the country -- and plenty of home cooks are following the lead. Easy to prepare and marvelously versatile, polenta can be enjoyed plain and simple or embellished with a wide range of tasty fillings, spreads, and toppings. This beautifully photographed and wonderfully inspirational volume includes 40 tempting recipes for breakfast treats, appetizers, entrees, and even desserts. Complete with tips on preparing the golden grain, "Polenta" is a glorious celebration of one of Italy's most popular dishes.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811811859
• ISBN13: 9780811811859
• Release Date: September 1996
• Publisher: Chronicle Books
• Length: 120 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.9" x 8.1"

Customer Reviews

Something other than Potatoes-Rice-Stuffing

Polenta has started to really come into our diets, and even now we have the quick fix mixes, the packaged rolled variety ready to cut and grill. The Italian invasion is upon us and we're loving it.Here is a beautiful little book which really gives us a great resource to enhance our use of this corn based delight in so many ways -- small pizzetta, grilled plenta crostini (one of my favorites with smoked trout and mascarpone), Polenta Lasagne, and one borrowed from Rockenwagner's cookbook (which Brigit helped bring to press) Polenta Fries.This book will not only give the clues to turn out delicious polenta of all varieties but will expand our usage of this delightful side dish ever more. Mail order sources and great color photos abound.

Fab book

I've made about 6 different recipes and they are all wonderful! One in particular, soft polenta with braised sausage sauce, has become my stand-by polenta recipe.