- Paperback: 416 pages
- Publisher: W Foulsham & Co Ltd; New edition edition (30 Mar 2002)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0572028482
- ISBN-13: 978-0572028480
- Product Dimensions: 20.7 x 14.7 x 2.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 250,027 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Now with colour photographs. A thousand fabulous flavours from the kitchens of Italy, this best-selling favourite now has stunning colour photographs to bring this comprehensive collection of mouth-watering recipes vividly to life. From cheap and nourishing meals to more sophisticated gourmet specialities. With this exciting book, you have the chance to put a healthy Mediterranean diet on your table every day of the week.
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A thousand fabulous flavours from the sunny kitchens of Italy.
From the best-selling classic range, here you'll find 1000 superb recipes with all the vibrant, fantastic flavours and exciting variety of Italy.
Italian food has brightened and enlivened our cuisine for generations with ever-popular pizzas and risottos, salads and salami, pastas and sauces, and delicious, piquant cheeses.
With this exciting book, you can extend your Italian-style cookery across a whole range of foods. From cheap and nourishing daily meals - such as a tasty Chicken and Tarragon Risotto - to a selection of the more sophisticated gourmet specialities - like Monkfish in Saffron Sauce. And all based on easy-to-find herbs, spices and other ingredients that can be bought from your local supermarket.
Dip into this comprehensive treasury of delightful dishes and enjoy years of brilliant eating italian-style.
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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful
If you are a lover of Italian food then this book is a must for yourkitchen bookshelf. Page after page of mouth-watering recipes that the keencook will be longing to try out. Few of the recipes will be familiar, afact which I love about about this book. Amongst the gems are dishes suchas Champagne scallops, Baked flatfish with sherry butter, Lamb withrosemary & raspberry sauce and Chicken with fig stuffing. Got youinterested yet ? Well there are also great recipes for vegetables, snacks,breads, sauces and desserts etc. Vegetarians will be happy with the numberof recipes which apply to them, meat and fish lovers will drool and Ithink the 'not so keen cook' will like the simplicity of quite a lot ofthe dishes.
There are a few colour illustrations in this thickpaperback but not enough if you like plenty of photography. My only gripeis that one recipe I tried had obviously never been tested.
To sum up - if your idea of heaven is getting floury with 'Palermo pizzapie' or splattered with 'Tagliatelle with porcini & cognac' then this maybe the book you are missing.
There are a few colour illustrations in this thickpaperback but not enough if you like plenty of photography. My only gripeis that one recipe I tried had obviously never been tested.
To sum up - if your idea of heaven is getting floury with 'Palermo pizzapie' or splattered with 'Tagliatelle with porcini & cognac' then this maybe the book you are missing.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
This is the `Does exactly what it says on the tin' of Italian cookbooks. No anecdotes about uncle Guiseppe and his hand picked goat's milk olive drenched tomatoes, or whatever. Just 1000 recipes that work. In amongst the `usual suspects' you will find some real gems, such as chicken and courgette pie, Roman kidneys and mussel soup with saffron. A whole chapter on veal (so ner-ner-na-ner-ner to the `veal police' who insist ALL veal is the product of torture, the food of Satan himself). Also, in contradiction to one of the other reviews here, very many recipes I clearly remember my grandmother cooking for me as a child, such as `Tuoni e Lampo' (thunder and lightning) and Rape alla Trentina (trentino turnips) how authentic do you want it ?
Reliance on olive oil in cooking is a southern Italian thing, and the presence of large quantities of butter (yum !) in recipes is not indicative of said recipes being less than authentic.
I love this book. And, given that I haven't even tried more than a handful of the recipes yet, that's quite impressive. As a trained chef, (ooh.... get her !) I have to say that the conversion of quantities is very hit-and-miss. The main reason for this is that the quantities are given in 3 ways, metric, imperial and american (for the benefit of our cousins who haven't learned to count above five, or use scales yet). I would strongly recommend that you pick ONE system and stick with it within recipes. As the recipes are clearly collected from genuine Italians, the obvious choice is to stick to metric. Having glanced through the book whilst writing this, I notice a couple of glaring inconsistencies in measure conversion...... one pint isn't 600ml even in a dyslexic American's kitchen !
Buy this book and you will be kept entertained and well fed for a long while. Then begins the quest for the true taste of Italy, for which there are as many cookbooks as there are Italian Grandmothers. Happy hunting.
Reliance on olive oil in cooking is a southern Italian thing, and the presence of large quantities of butter (yum !) in recipes is not indicative of said recipes being less than authentic.
I love this book. And, given that I haven't even tried more than a handful of the recipes yet, that's quite impressive. As a trained chef, (ooh.... get her !) I have to say that the conversion of quantities is very hit-and-miss. The main reason for this is that the quantities are given in 3 ways, metric, imperial and american (for the benefit of our cousins who haven't learned to count above five, or use scales yet). I would strongly recommend that you pick ONE system and stick with it within recipes. As the recipes are clearly collected from genuine Italians, the obvious choice is to stick to metric. Having glanced through the book whilst writing this, I notice a couple of glaring inconsistencies in measure conversion...... one pint isn't 600ml even in a dyslexic American's kitchen !
Buy this book and you will be kept entertained and well fed for a long while. Then begins the quest for the true taste of Italy, for which there are as many cookbooks as there are Italian Grandmothers. Happy hunting.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
The book has very many Italian recipes, however, I was disappointed to find out that there were only a few pictures of them... the rest is on a simple thin paper and contains no pictures that would show how your recipe should look.
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I can't see!!!! Oh wait... there aren't any pictures!!!
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