Cooking Event with Amber Guinness

Join us for a cooking demonstration and talk from Amber's latest cookbook, Winter in Tuscany.

• Date: Tuesday 13 January
• Time: 7pm
• Venue: Sevenoaks Bookshop, 147 High Street, Sevenoaks, TN13 1XJ

Winter in Tuscany

Amber Guinness brings the heart of Tuscany’s cosy autumnal and wintry flavours to your kitchen.

Following the success of A House Party in Tuscany and Italian Coastal, Amber Guinness invites you on an artful tour through her beloved Southern Tuscany and favourite pockets of Florence. Winter in Tuscany celebrates the region’s rich culinary and cultural traditions with a quanto basta approach – the intuitive, Italian method of ‘just enough’ – and brings the heart of Tuscany’s cosy autumnal and wintry flavours to your kitchen.

But quanto basta is more than just a philosophy for cooking; it’s a metaphor for life. This book celebrates life in the off-season; an ode to exploring Tuscany’s villages and countryside when the crowds have thinned, allowing for a deeper, more intimate connection with the culture, food and landscapes. In discovering treasures off the beaten path, Amber highlights the richness of exploring at a gentler pace, when Tuscany truly reveals itself.

The book is filled with an array of hyper-local, traditional recipes for the home cook: from antipasti, zuppe – thick, hearty Tuscan soups – and brodo, brothy concoctions that bring comfort on colder days, to rustic pasta, rice and secondi – meat and vegetable mains that celebrate the season.

Whether you’re strolling beneath Della Robbia’s cherubs or simmering a hearty soup on a cold winter’s night, Winter in Tuscany is an invitation to slow down and appreciate the beauty in small moments and big flavours.

Amber Guinness

Born in London but raised in Italy, Amber learned to cook at her mother’s side in the kitchen at Arniano, the farmhouse restored by her parents Jasper and Camilla and where the kitchen has always been at the heart of life.

In 2014, she co founded the Arniano Painting School, with her friend, the artist William Roper-Curzon on which she cooks lunch and dinner for guests.

Since starting the courses and beginning to cook in earnest, Amber has made a name for herself as an author, cook and host who champions the slower, more soulful side of Italian life. She has written three best selling cookbooks on Italian food, the first ‘A House Party in Tuscany’ was all about the history and food of her family from Arniano. Her second ‘Italian Coastal’ all about the food, history and legend from Italy’s Western Tyrrhenian Coast, and her latest book ‘Winter In Tuscany’, is a celebration of Tuscany’s off-season charm, when the days grow shorter, the food richer and the kitchen becomes the heart of the home.

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