Works
There are three works by Artusi: two non fiction books and a cooking manual. The non-fiction works, a biography of Ugo Foscolo and a critique of Giuseppe Giusti, went largely unnoticed and quickly went out of print.
His manual, however, entitled La Scienza in cucina e l'Arte di mangiar bene, was much more successful. In 1891, at age 71, he completed his cookbook, but could not find a publisher. So he used his own money to self-publish, selling a thousand copies of the first edition in four years. Soon, however, the cookbook caught on, and before Artusi died, more than 200,000 copies had been sold. Filled with amusing anecdotes as well as recipes, the book is a perennial best seller in Italy, and has been translated into Spanish, Dutch, German and English, and most recently, Portuguese.
In 1904, Artusi published a practical manual for the kitchen, with over 3,000 recipes and 150 tables, simply entitled "Ecco il tuo libro di cucina" (Here is your cookbook) with the anonymous participation and influence of the baroness Giulia Turco.
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