Hot Dinners Best Cookbooks of 2022The Times Best Food Books of 2022"I love this book, full of joyfully simple, scrumptious, honest cooking - Theo has created the most delicious dishes. I love this book, full of joyfully simple, scrumptious, honest cooking – Theo has created the most delicious dishes. You won’t be able to resist."– Jamie Oliver

Chef Theo Randall joined the Chris Evans Breakfast Show with Sky to talk about his fourth cookbook, The Italian Pantry. The other pantry ingredients are tomatoes, parmesan, lemons, leafy greens, polenta, honey and pine nuts, and, in the book, Theo calls on memories of childhood holidays to Italy, in which his parents would source the best quality family ingredients to fill their own pantry. He told Tom: “We used to have these lovely holidays where we’d drive through France to Italy. I was always the one who chose the restaurants, and my mother was such a good cook that I kind of always cooked with her. She used to make bread three times a week. From simple pasta dishes and more extravagant dinners for when you have people over, to delectable desserts and classic Italian cakes, you'll delight in Theo's take on the very best of Italian home cooking.Speaking more about his mother’s influence, the chef said: “My mother was a brilliant cook. She had this pantry, which was the messiest pantry you’ve ever seen in your life, but it was full to the brim. She always put the chocolate on the top shelf so that I couldn’t get to it!

If you’re daunted about making Italian food, then you needn’t be. Theo said: “The thing about the cookbook, and the food I cook, it is quite simple. It’s not over-complicated. Italian food, there’s nowhere to hide. It’s all about the quality of the ingredients, so all the dishes in there, there’s not that many complicated recipes, it’s just simple home-cooking, which is what Italian food is really mostly about.” Whilst the Heinz ravioli recipe didn’t make it into Theo’s new book, he told Tom that there are plenty of fresh pasta recipes in there, and he even gave listeners one to try, describing it as, “an absolutely perfect recipe for pasta.” The new book, which comes out on Thursday 1st September, sees Theo select ten staple Italian ingredients and create simple recipes to inspire people to cook with them. He told Tom Allen, who is in for Chris, that the idea of the book is, “ten ingredients in your pantry and the inspiration of those ten ingredients to cook from.” Acclaimed chef Theo specialises in Italian Cuisine. Of his new book, he explained: “There’s a section on breadcrumbs, there’s a section on ricotta, there’s a section on dried porcini mushrooms. And so that kind of elevates. That’s the star point of the dish, that elevates you into these creations that I have come up with, but the idea is you kind of cook from your pantry. And that’s how I cook at home.” Whether writing about familiar dishes like pork shoulder cooked in milk (a version of a River Cafe classic) or some less well-known Italian specialities he's unearthed, such as torta pastiera (a pie from Sorrento filled with grano cotto – cooked wheat – rice, eggs and ricotta) Randall is always informative and engaging.I love this book, full of joyfully simple, scrumptious, honest cooking - Theo has created the most delicious dishes. You won't be able to resist." - Jamie Oliver Theo Randall's Italian food is some of the best I've ever eaten." - Diana Henry's Autumn 2022 Best Cookbooks, The Telegraph You won't be able to resist." - Jamie Oliver"Theo Randall's Italian food is some of the best I've ever eaten." - Diana Henry's Autumn 2022 Best Cookbooks, The TelegraphElevate your cooking and eating the easy way with The Italian Pantry. World-renowned chef Theo Randall shares his 10 pantry staples and reveals his favourite ways to cook with them through 100 fabulous recipes covering Tomatoes, Porcini Mushrooms, Parmesan, Lemons, Leafy Greens, Ricotta, Polenta, Pine nuts, Honey and Breadcrumbs.

World-renowned chef Theo Randall shares his 10 pantry staples and reveals his favourite ways to cook with them through 100 fabulous recipes covering Tomatoes, Porcini Mushrooms, Parmesan, Lemons, Leafy Greens, Ricotta, Polenta, Pine nuts, Honey and Breadcrumbs. From simple pasta dishes and more extravagant dinners for when you have people over, to delectable desserts and classic Italian cakes, you’ll delight in Theo’s take on the very best of Italian home cooking. So, I’m just sort of one of those cooks that likes to use ingredients from my pantry, and that’s where the book comes from. And a lot of the recipes are dishes that I’ve cooked at home, and there’s lots of stories about cooking at home for my children and that kind of thing.” The Italian Pantry is released Thursday 1st September. For more Information visit theorandall.com . Theo will be appearing at his first ever CarFest South this year! World-renowned chef Theo Randall shares his 10 pantry staples and reveals his favourite ways to cook with them through 100 fabulous recipes covering Tomatoes, Porcini Mushrooms, Parmesan, Lemons, Leafy Greens, Ricotta, Polenta, Pine nuts, Honey and Breadcrumbs. From simple pasta dishes and more extravagant dinners for when you have people over, to delectable desserts and classic Italian cakes, you'll delight in Theo's take on the very best of Italian home cooking.Theo Randall’s Italian food is some of the best I’ve ever eaten."– Diana Henry’s Autumn 2022 Best Cookbooks, The Telegraph When Tom asked if you can roll it by hand or if you need a pasta-making machine, the chef told him: “You can roll it out by hand. It’s a good workout! You need a good surface, like a wooden surface, and a rolling pin. If you’ve got a pasta machine, that’s even better.”