Five Quarters: Recipes and Notes from a Kitchen in Rome
Rachel Roddy's Five Quarters won the Guild of Food Writers' First Book award and the Andre Simon Food Book award 2015.
'Five Quarters stands out as particularly considered and evocative...Impeccably researched and transportive, it's a proper read, rather than a quick flick.' AA Gill, Sunday Times best cookbooks 2015'Of course I thought Rome was glorious, but I didn't want to stay. A month, three at most, then I'd take a train back to Sicily to finish the clockwise journey I'd interrupted, before moving even further southwards...'Instead, captivated by the exhilarating life of Testaccio, the wedge-shaped quarter of Rome that centres round the old slaughterhouse and the bustling food market, Rachel decided to rent a flat and live there. Thus began an Italian adventure that's turned into a brand new life. Five Quarters charts a year in Rachel's small kitchen, shopping, cooking, eating and writing, capturing a uniquely domestic picture of life in this vibrant, charismatic city. Combining Rachel's love of Italian food and cooking with a strong nostalgia for home and memories of growing up in England, this is a cookbook to read in bed as well as to use in the kitchen.Chapters:AntipastiSoup & PastaMeat & FishVegetablesDolciRachel Roddy is an award-winning food writer and weekly columnist in Guardian Feast. Rachel's first book Five Quarters won the Andre Simon Food Book Award in 2015, as well as the Guild of Food Writers' First Book Award. Her second book, Two Kitchens, was published in 2017 and her third An A to Z of Pasta in 2021.
She has written for the Financial Times, The New York Times, Vanity Fair, Internazionale and the Passenger magazine. She has lived in Testaccio in Rome since 2005 with her Sicilian partner and son. racheleats.wordpress.comFollow Rachel on Instagram @rachelaliceroddyFollow Rachel on X @racheleatsAuthor: Rachel Roddy
Format: Hardback, 384 pages, 182mm x 248mm, 1310 g
Published: 2015, Headline Publishing Group, United Kingdom
Genre: People & Places: General
Rachel Roddy's Five Quarters won the Guild of Food Writers' First Book award and the Andre Simon Food Book award 2015.
'Five Quarters stands out as particularly considered and evocative...Impeccably researched and transportive, it's a proper read, rather than a quick flick.' AA Gill, Sunday Times best cookbooks 2015'Of course I thought Rome was glorious, but I didn't want to stay. A month, three at most, then I'd take a train back to Sicily to finish the clockwise journey I'd interrupted, before moving even further southwards...'Instead, captivated by the exhilarating life of Testaccio, the wedge-shaped quarter of Rome that centres round the old slaughterhouse and the bustling food market, Rachel decided to rent a flat and live there. Thus began an Italian adventure that's turned into a brand new life. Five Quarters charts a year in Rachel's small kitchen, shopping, cooking, eating and writing, capturing a uniquely domestic picture of life in this vibrant, charismatic city. Combining Rachel's love of Italian food and cooking with a strong nostalgia for home and memories of growing up in England, this is a cookbook to read in bed as well as to use in the kitchen.Chapters:AntipastiSoup & PastaMeat & FishVegetablesDolciRachel Roddy is an award-winning food writer and weekly columnist in Guardian Feast. Rachel's first book Five Quarters won the Andre Simon Food Book Award in 2015, as well as the Guild of Food Writers' First Book Award. Her second book, Two Kitchens, was published in 2017 and her third An A to Z of Pasta in 2021.
She has written for the Financial Times, The New York Times, Vanity Fair, Internazionale and the Passenger magazine. She has lived in Testaccio in Rome since 2005 with her Sicilian partner and son. racheleats.wordpress.comFollow Rachel on Instagram @rachelaliceroddyFollow Rachel on X @racheleats