Winner of a 2023 Gourmand Best International Cookbook Award, Joe Dolce is popularly known for the phenomenal international hit record of the 80s, Shaddap You Face, which was Number One in 12 countries, with hundreds of foreign language cover versions, including versions in the Western Australian aboriginal dialect of Indjibundgi and Papua New Guinean pidgin.
He has also been doing some serious cooking!
He was a featured guest, in 2005, on Lifestyle Cafe, on The Lifestyle Channel, preparing Turkish gözleme, and won first place in the 2007 Hepburn Springs-Daylesford Swiss-Italian Festival Best Pasta Sauce Competition, for a Basil-Chili Tomato Sauce, with Guanciale, Fennel Sausage & Kangaroo Braciole.
He was shortlisted for the 2020 Australian Photography: Photographer of the Year and he took the enticing food photographs for this cookbook.
For as Apicius once said:
'The first taste is always with the eyes.'
Dolce Cooks At Home: Joe Dolce's Most Loved Recipes is his first cookbook, compiled from over fifty years of home-cooking. Many of the recipes are from his Italian-American childhood but even more are from the stunning dishes of world cuisine that have influenced him over the years.
Inside you will find his grandmother's Spaghetti and Meatballs, next to Indonesian Sop Buntut, North Vietnamese Bún Ch¿, Ethiopian Roast Lamb with 15 Berbere Spices, the National tri-coloured dish of Mexico: Chiles en Nogada, and American Soul Food brilliancies such as BBQ Ribs, Fried Green Tomatoes and Red Velvet Cake.
