Cookbook

Good quality makes good food!

In the many years that Mercedes Lauenstein and Juri Gottschall have been shopping, cooking and enjoying food for their online magazine, they have learned one thing: the most important ingredient for a good meal is quality. The better the products used, the shorter the list of ingredients, because good food usually stands out so impressively on its own that any additional accompaniment distracts rather than complements it.

But what are good products anyway? Where do you find them, how do you recognize them and process them? In their second book, the winners of the 2022 German Cookbook Prize focus on the aspect of commodity knowledge of Italian products. Whether vegetables, herbs, cheese or fats, Italian cuisine is and remains the master of product quality, biodiversity and maximum simplicity with maximum creativity. It works best where the uncompromisingly high-quality basic product can be the real star. For each product group there are the best recipes in the tried and tested Splendido style - without dogmas and quantities for more fun, self-empowerment and success in cooking.