Leaf Quote by Antoni Porowski

I adore summer entertaining. For a dinner party at the farm, I might prepare homemade fettuccine with porcini mushrooms, soft-shell crabs, spinach from the…

— Martha Stewart

Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.

— Yotam Ottolenghi

Nowadays I actually cook Italian-style food more than French heavy sauces. I make a good salad, some great roasted vegetables, grilled fish. I'm crazy…

— Benjamin Millepied

I'd like to have any sort of Mexican or Italian food any time of the day!

— Brenda Song

Mushrooms can be very fancy. It's the closest you can get to eating dirt.

— Tom Colicchio

One of my favourite low-carb suppers is a Spanish tortilla using cauliflower in place of the potato.

— John Whaite

In Rome you've got to try spaghetti cacio e pepe. It's just with pecorino and black pepper - it's sort of like homeopathic macaroni…

— Dave Myers

Whether you talk about the olive oil, whether you talk about Aceto Balsamico, whether you talk about Grana Padano, whether you talk about Mozzarella…

— Lidia Bastianich

If I'm in Italy, I'm going to have a cappuccino and two small brioches and then a mix of orange and grapefruit. I don't…

— Christian Louboutin

“brown-capped porcini, yellow chanterelles, and oysters, every hillside ablaze with multicolored mushrooms, tasty and not nourishing in the slightest.”

— Ioanna Karystiani

Dinner is usually just pasta with mushrooms.

— JaVale McGee

As far as Italian ingredients, I always have one of those plants of fresh basil in the house, and some mozzarella in the fridge.

— Gino D'Acampo