Italy's best risottos

I bought this collection of  Italy's best risottos at the Notting Hill bookstore, Books for Cooks, while in London recently. I am a great risotto fan and this book appealed especially because it features both popular favourites as well as many lesser known dishes. 

About the author:

Maxine Clark is a leading food stylist and writer as well as a gifted chef. She gained a Distinction when training as a chef at Leith’s School of Food and Wine in London with the result that she was invited to become a teacher there after graduating. She has been teaching gourmet cookery holidays for chef Alistair Little’s Tasting Places for more than 20 years both in Sicily and Tuscany.  Maxine’s work appears regularly in magazines such as BBC Good Food and Food and Travel. She teaches Food Innovation at the University of Abertay, Dundee.
Maxine is the author of several cookery books. Her most recent, Pies Glorious Pies was published by Ryland Peters & Small in September 2012.

 Ryland, Peters & Small - Hardcover-  I paid 15 pounds