Our cookbook of the week is La Cucina di Terroni by Toronto restaurateur Cosimo Mammoliti with Milan-based Canadian food and travel writer Meredith Erickson.

Jump to the recipes: funghi assoluti ( baked oyster mushroom salad ), rigatoni arcobaleno (“ rainbow rigatoni” : zucchini, cherry tomatoes and buffalo mozzarella) and panzerotti ( fried pizza pockets ).

Terroni holds a special place in my heart. The group of Toronto restaurants has been a constant since I moved to the city in 2002. When I got my first job in media at an internet radio station up the street, I would sit at the bar at the Balmoral location with a book and treat myself to spaghetti al limone (spaghetti with lemon sauce). It was the ultimate mood lifter.

Seeing this sunny dish and more than 100 other classics

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