Cooking is a necessity before being an art, which means that its primary aim is to satiate you and only after you can search for the taste, followed by decorations and creativity. Let us never forget that – we owe it to the many in the world that still have no access to basic necessities such as food and water.
This book was born as a game, as a way to tidy up the various recipes we tried out in the past few years. It is an unusual recipe book in that there is no hard-to-find ingredient. Rather, everything we talk about can be easily tracked down in any supermarket, and if you can't, then you can substitute it with a similar one – the taste won't be affected. We are not very picky!
Of course, trying to make Genoese pesto without basil might be hard, but imagination has no limits. After all, many recipes that are popular today were born by mistake or by contingency. Indeed, if you find ways to improve the recipes, I would love to know. After all, there are no strict formulas: many dishes belong to folk tradition and as such they do not have a precise list of ingredients and it is not my intention fix that; I do not have this presumption. My suggestions are only examples that I tried and enjoyed. But enough talking now – have fun and enjoy your meal.