The Seasons of the Italian Kitchen

Diane Darrow and Tom Maresca offer 200 recipes emphasizing fresh ingredients. Each seasonal section is organized by course and tempts with a variety of simple and complex flavors. For fall, with summer produce is still available, there's macaroni with baked tomatoes, beets with balsamic vinegar, sweet and sour braised rabbit. Winter choices include comfort foods like Umbrian onion soup, Tuscan pot roast, grilled radicchio with anchovy mustard sauce. Interspersed with the primarily traditional recipes are discussions of classic dishes like polenta or ingredients, like tomatoes. Every dish comes with wine recommendations.