great cooking & eating ahead
This is a fabulous find for anyone who wants a good friend to give them clear instructions to become skilled in Italian cooking. Grace starts you out, builds up your skills, and gives you great recipes. I am SO excited to have this book!
Just like my great Sicilian grandmother's food!
I was born in upstate New York, where my Italian grandparents settled when they arrived from Sicily. Grace's recipes remind me of the Italian American food both of my grandmother's cooked. I write a food blog, and I often use these recipes with great satisfaction.
The book also teaches you how to cook--step by step.
My favorite recipe is the Sicilian Cassata! My family loves this cake--it's unbelievably good. Millie's Orange Drop Cookies, Ladder Bread, Marinara (she teaches you to make a huge batch and freeze in separate containers for future meals), Homemade Egg Pasta--the best!
I highly recommend it to my readers, and I wish she would write another cookbook :)
Cooking with Grace changed my life
I met Grace Pilato at an international cooking class. I was there because I was raised in the Betty Crocker era; I literally did not know how to cook anything but desserts. One time cooking with Grace and I was hooked.Grace's book is so unlike other cookbooks. Usually I pick up a cookbook, try one recipe, find that it is a dud and never pick up the book again. In Grace's cookbook I can try any recipe and it will be wonderful. Some of the recipes I've made in Grace's classes, but I recently made Rolled Stuffed Salmon, a fairly complex recipe, on my own and it turned out fabulous. Because Grace's recipes have been tested repeatedly by students of her cooking classes, they are easy to follow--not to mention incredibly delicious. The book is full of both decadent recipes as well as numerous recipes for people trying to eat more healthfully. Grace says Italians eat vegetables not because they're good for them but because they love them. You'll love them too if you try Grace's way of cooking them! Asparagus, salad dressings, marinated roasted peppers--the list goes on! I especially love the Lentil Pumpkin Soup. I highly recommend Cooking with Grace to everyone, from experienced cooks to Betty Crocker types like me. You'll be addicted, trust me.
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