Excellent, simple, really Italian; and beautiful
I absolutely love this cookbook, and everyone who eats the results agrees. (I've been using it for about a year.) The recipes are mostly very simple and very flavorful. Great for every-day meals. Instructions are clear. The recipes are very authentic. (I am of Italian ancestry, have relatives from Italy, and have eaten there with Italians.) As a vegetarian for many, many years it is a treat to have a whole cookbook on Italian food. And I absolutely love the photos. This is a beautiful book.
a book worth having
the author gives vignettes of italian life, not just italian food. the sections preceding each chapter are a great read all by themselves. the recipes by themselves are quite simple and easy to follow, and the empahsis is on the freshness and quality of ingredients.
the pictures are wonderful too. the one "turn-off" for me, if you may call it that, was the copious amounts of fat in each recipe, in the form of oil, butter, cream and cheese. that said, it doesn't claim to a low-fat book. the recipes are authentic and very satisfying to the tastebuds.
An excellent cookbook - and it's vegetarian!
What great recipes! And the hints and suggestions at the bottom of each recipe really add to the book.And the photography in this book is stunning - I've seen that word used too often, including in the description here on amazon.com, but it really does fit this book. And it IS a vegetarian cookbook. The reviewer who panned it for not being vegetarian needs to make the distinction between vegetarian and vegan. I am a vegetarian, and it's hard to find recipes for such dishes as risotto (like the great ones in this book!) that don't depend on chicken stock. The risotto section in this book starts off with a recipe for the vegetable stock that is used in all the risotto recipes - perfect!
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