A look inside influencer Gianluca Conte’s new cookbook, “Italian/American: It’s a QCP Cookbook, Betch!”
I was fully prepared to hate this cookbook. And while “loathe” is a word I am loath to use, I was even expecting to loathe it.
Let’s parse that title. He says in the book’s introduction that although his name is Gianluca, he is better known as QCP. But he doesn’t say what QCP stands for, leading, naturally, to our own speculation.And then there’s that last word, “Betch.” He is famous, he says with his customary lack of modesty, for using the word “betch” a lot.
Seriously, he never wears a shirt. In dozens and dozens of photographs, and who knows how many social media posts, he goes shirtless. He must think it makes him look sexy, but as a cook, I worry about hot sauces splashing up onto his bare skin. The book is written with an unlikable mixture of attitude, ego and immaturity. It is everything you would expect a cookbook by an influencer to be.But here’s the thing, and it hurts me to admit it: The recipes aren’t bad. They’re a bit simplistic, but they aren’t bad for what they are.
And it is just the basics. Every recipe he runs could be improved with the addition of an extra ingredient or two or three — a bit of nutmeg in the Alfredo sauce, perhaps, or parsley, flour and especially Parmesan cheese in the veal Milanese.
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