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Chapter 3 discusses the importance of base recipes in Italian cuisine. It may sound boring to an avid cook, desiring to quickly recreate their favorite dishes, to take a few hours to create these “recipes,” but I can attest that it is time well spent.

For millennia, Italian home cooks have been doing “inactive cooking” by simmering stock on the stove, soaking beans, and other activites while they were busy attending to other things. They saved leftover bread to make bread crumbs, crostini, and bruschetta. They also cooked beans and legumes on a weekly basis to be added to recipes as needed. By adopting these ancient practices, you can be sure to not only make good use of time and money, but create healthier and tastier dishes as well.