Paperback. black cover with yellow title and food image.

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For conditions, please view our photographs. A nice clean extremely rare original book from the library gathered by the famous Cambridge Don, computer scientist, food and wine connoisseur, Jack Arnold LANG. 

Jack founded the Michelin Guide ‘Midsummer House’- Cambridge’s paramount restaurant. This dining experience is hidden amongst the grassy pastures and grazing cattle of Midsummer Common and perched on the banks of the River Cam. 

Review: I’ve followed Valentina for years since her first series on BBC2 and have loved her beautiful simple healthy food. I lost the book along with. many others when the kitchen was flooded. So I saw this and bought it and will be cooking from It In The New Year.

Valentina’s story begins in 1369 with her remarkable heritage, rooted in the illustrious Sforza Dynasty, a ruling family of Milan. The legacy of her Italian lineage has only grown stronger with time, embraced by her close Anglo-Italian family of gourmets, who first taught Valentina to cook at the age of 6 years old. Classically trained in Italy, Valentina brought her culinary expertise from Rome to London in 1976 as a skilled private chef. Her reputation flourished with the publication of her 1984 award-winning debut cookery book Perfect Pasta. Spending over four decades honing her skills, Valentina is an expert at what she does, equipped with the story telling skills to match. Delighting audiences small and large with her anecdotes and culinary adventures, Valentina has marked herself as an ambassador for authentic Italian cuisine.