- Paperback: 256 pages
- Publisher: Carroll and Brown Publishers Ltd (30 May 2003)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1903258421
- ISBN-13: 978-1903258422
- Product Dimensions: 25.4 x 20.2 x 2.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,496,650 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Far more than your average, staid kitchen manual. Enlivened with personal anecdotes and old black and white photographs.
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Tony Casillo's Family Cookbook contains recipes for preparing complete meals. He believes in using seasonal produce to get the best results and gives lots of tips on how to buy and prepare ingredients. Whether you want to turn out a pizza almost as good as a Neapolitan can, or know which are the best canned tomatoes to buy. Tony's advice will point you in the right direction. You will find advise about where to buy the best seasonal produce, and wise and witty asides on matters culinary. Easy to prepare recipes for complete meals for everyday and festive occasions. Great tasting food, great photography and a wonderful collection of old family photographs with evocative anecdotes.
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From a Daughter to A Dad,
By Mrs Gina Deeble (London, England) - See all my reviews
This review is from: An Italian Family Cookbook (Paperback)
My father is a constant source of amazement. Since I was a young girl, he has astounded me with tales of his very modest childhood in Italy. As a newly arrived, Italian-speaking US citizen aged 13, he excelled in school, eventually winning a scholarship to university. Throughout these times he cared and cooked for his younger siblings while his parents worked - quite a humbling thought for an American-born girl who always had plenty of clothes, toys and food. It seemed to me that my father achieved the 'American Dream'. My own childhood memories are filled with family events and gatherings centred around my father's cooking and conversation and my mother's skill in presentation and entertaining. Every relative seemed to have a special recipe associated to them and I remember feeling daunted by the prospect that, one day, I would be hosting family gatherings of my own - what would I cook, how would I manage? Inevitably, the dreaded day came. How painful a process it was to cook a meal! It took me all day and I was constantly ringing home to ask my father's advice. Thanks to him, it was a success, and many more family meals followed, but I still called my dad every time to ask "how do you make this or that?" Eventually I think this prompted my father to write down all our family recipes gathered over the years. The cookbook provides a wonderful, personal memento for me, but it's also a failsafe guide to preparing and enjoying some classic, delicious and uncomplicated recipes. Mealtime gatherings will always play a huge part in our family life but it's wonderful to reflect that our family life may now impact others' mealtimes!
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The dish I thought I'd never find again,
By derrick young (london, UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: An Italian Family Cookbook (Paperback)
The word genuine shines through this book … from the charming photos of the family history to recipes and cooking tips that have been filling our kitchen with evocative aromas I thought I had to holiday in Tuscany to find.The most memorable dish I ever came across in Italy was called Tagliata, in a back street restaurant in Lucca, then never saw again. Until, that is, leafing through the pages I came across Mr Casillo’s marvellous version. Ah, the memories. What a find (the dish AND the book).
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Perfect Pasta!- Global Magazine review,
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This review is from: An Italian Family Cookbook (Paperback)
An Italian Family Cookbook is far more than your average, staid kitchen manuel: Tony Casillo grew up in a poor family in Italy where they had to learn to be creative with basic ingredients. The family emigrated in New York when he was 12 and he and his English wife now live in England so the recipes, although Italian in essence, have an eclectic world flavour. Enlivened with personal anecdotes and old black and white photographs about the life and cooking secrets of the Casillo family, we are given a glimpse of recipes that have been in the family for generations. With names like 'Uncle Tony's Chicken' and 'Grandpa Simone's Fried Prawns', you get a blend of family life and fine food that's a bit like the Jamie Oliver cookbook series- just with less parmesan!
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