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Made in Italy: Food and Stories (Hardcover)

by Giorgio Locatelli (Author)
4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (25 customer reviews)

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  • Hardcover: 512 pages
  • Publisher: Fourth Estate Ltd (4 Sep 2006)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1841157015
  • ISBN-13: 978-1841157016
  • Product Dimensions: 28.8 x 20.8 x 5.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (25 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 141,894 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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'"Made in Italy " is quite simply the perfect book. So many books are rattled off to accompany television series that when you come across the real thing, written in its own time and to its own agenda, it really hits you between the eyes!Buy this and you'll never want to look at another Italian cookbook again.' Gordon Ramsay, Times 'This book is nothing short of a masterpiece.' Nigel Slater 'Packed with delicious recipes, many from his restaurant, and the reminiscences from his life, it is the ultimate gift for anyone interested in Italian food.' Telegraph '(Locatelli's) "Made in Italy", is my Book of the Year and puts everything else I have on my Italian shelf in the shade.'Nigel Slater, Observer Food Monthly '"Made in Italy "by the flamboyant Italian chef Giorgio Locatelli is such a fashionable combination of charming anecdotes and stories about his family that could double as recipes.' Saturday Telegraph Magazine 'A compendium that should replace everything but Marcella Hazan on your Italian shelf.' Kate Colquhoun, in the Daily Telegraph 'Books of the Year 'Large and handsome!most of the recipes are painstaking and lucid, and the context embraces Giorgio, his family and professional life, while guiding us effortlessly through some of the riches of Italian foodstuffs.' Tom Jaine, The Guardian 'Giorgio Locatelli's "Made in Italy" is a beautiful, evocative book, looking not just at traditional Italian ingredients and local recipes but also at local traditions and the memories!deserves to become a classic.' Waterstones Books Quarterly 'This book is, like all the best Italians, good-looking and just a bit irreverent. Even so, it would be a shame to leave this one on the coffee table, rather than take it into the kitchen where it belongs.' Book of the Week, Time Out


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36 of 38 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars The must-have volume on Italian Food, 26 Sep 2006
I have not been able to put this book down (and believe me, it's very heavy!) since I received it a couple of weeks ago. It is a wonderful mixture of recipes, detailed descriptions of distinctive ingredients like parmesan, olive oil and pasta and stories and reminiscences from Giorgio's life. While it is eminently practical, it also includes recipes for many signature dishes from Locanda Locatelli as well as shortcuts and adaptations for cooking at home.
Along with Marcella Hazan's 'Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking', you could not have a better guide to Italian food.
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38 of 41 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Flawless bible of Italian Food, 6 Nov 2006
This book will still be around when Jamie Oliver is just a dinner ladies' distant memory.

'Made In Italy' is densely packed with fascinating and insightful information regarding Italy and its food, for example there are 24 pages studying each aspect of just one dish - the classic risotto (then a further fifteen risotto recipes and even more variations).

But while this is a comprehensive book, it isn't complicated. Locatelli's charisma and style - so beloved of the celebrity set - oozes from the page, and the range of recipes is enough to turn you from non-chef, to sous-chef.

You get a sense that this a book which has been really honed (I read an interview with Locatelli that said he had been making it for five years), and is in marked contrast to the Gordon Ramsay/Jamie Oliver/Gary Rhodes method of releasing a book every six months as though it's a magazine. It's also really beautifully designed and photographed. It's a perfect gift for food lover - ideally you'd want one for the kitchen, and one for your coffee table.
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19 of 21 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars The ultimate in italian cooking books, 25 Oct 2006
By J. Houghton (Falmouth, Cornwall) - See all my reviews
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Having first encountered Giorgio Locatelli on a BBC re-run of a short food series, he immediate stood out as an oustanding chef whose food not only looked great but was so simple to cook. When I saw this book I immediately had to buy it and I havent been dissapointed. Firstly its a big book. But beautifully made every thing about it from its appearance to its contents shows that a great deal of thought has gone into it, its almost perfection personified. Its a book to be displayed with pride not stuck on some shelf, its a major conversation piece in its own right all your friends will notice it instantly. The contents will not dissapoint. There are genuine italian recipes covering the whole spectrum from Carpaccio to gelato's every recipe is easy to follow. If you love italian food then once you start using this book you'll never stop. The book not only gives amazing recipes but also conveys Giorgio's journey through food, what to look for when selecting you food from the shop's. He also puts across a good case for going that extra mile to a local shop rather than buying straight from the supermmarket. All in all excellent.
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