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- Taste of Malta US Edition
- Taste of Malta UK Edition
by Claudia Caruana
This introduction to the cuisine of the island of Malta includes a brief history of Malta and Maltese cooking, and features favourites such as timpana, ross fil-forn and aljotta. An appendix contains basic recipes for various doughs, sauces and stocks, and an extensive section of resources.
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- The Food and Cookery of Malta
by Anne Caruana Galizia & Helen Caruana Galizia
Malta is interesting: its cookery especially so. Phoenicians (Carthaginians), Romans, Arabs, Normans, Catalans, Sicilians, chivalric crusading Knights, revolutionary French men and Imperial Britains have each left their own line of sediment in the culinary geology. Add to that a very particular geography of treeless limestone hills, a lot of rabbits, millions of blood oranges and buckets of fish, and you have a curious pot, boiled in a thousand ways. The ladies first wrote their book in 1972 and it has sold many copies in Malta itself. This is a revision with extensions covering more recent developments, a catalogue of edible fish from Maltese waters, as well as extra recipes fleshing out this portrait of Maltese cooking. The Maltese are big on rabbit and here you can find ways of stewing, frying, putting it in pies and even (an Imperial touch, this) adding some curry powder, carrots and peas. They are also impassioned by pasta and here is an authoritative version of Timpana, a macaroni pie with brains and chicken liver, or a macaroni mould, or several sorts of ravioli. Maltese sweet dishes are also discussed with very interesting recipes that show both middle eastern and Italian affiliations for dishes such as Date-filled Diamonds, Yeasted Sesame Seed Rings, Lenten Almond Cakes, Easter Characters (almond pastries cut out to represent symbolic figures), a cake of pine nuts and nougat. If you are a visitor to Malta this book will be an essential culinary and linguistic companion; if you are an exile from Malta this will tug at your gustatory heart strings; if your grandmother was Maltese, this will tell you where she came from. The Mediterranean is a region of astonishing diversity in unity.
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