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Summary: Nonna would be proud
Review: A cookbook that reads like a novel and brings to the table recipes that would make anyone's grandmother proud. After making "Nonna's Lasagne" I immediately called my mother, who has been making lasagne for more years than she'll let me admit, to emphatically state that this was the best lasagne I'd ever made. The recipes are simple to follow but the end products are anything but simple to the taste, the dishes are exquisite! The cook-to-cook hints are extremely helpful and the stories that are layered through the book are delightful. If you love italian food you must own this book. Grazie molto Lynne.
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Summary: Nonna would be proud
Review: A cookbook that reads like a novel and brings to the table recipes that would make anyone's grandmother proud. After making "Nonna's Lasagne" I immediately called my mother, who has been making lasagne for more years than she'll let me admit, to emphatically state that this was the best lasagne I'd ever made. The recipes are simple to follow but the end products are anything but simple to the taste, the dishes are exquisite! The cook-to-cook hints are extremely helpful and the stories that are layered through the book are delightful. If you love italian food you must own this book. Grazie molto Lynne.
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Summary: Authentic Flavor Treasures
Review: As a passionate home cook and author of "The Gourmet Prescription: High Flavor Recipes for Lower Carbohydrate Diets", I'm delighted by the focus on FLAVOR in this engagingly written book. Even though, for health reasons, I don't eat the starches and desserts, I consider myself to have gotten a bargain. In fact, many of the recipes can be adapted to the "lower carbohydrate" way of eating for weight loss and cardiovascular health. For example, last night I made the Balsamico Roast Chicken without the potatoes. I served it with my own Saute of Roasted Fennel and Tomatoes with Smoked Peppers from "The Gourmet Prescription". A great protein/carbohydrate pairing. Every one of Lynn Rossetto Kasper's recipes speaks with authenticity. Brava!
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Summary: Rich, Uncomplicated Italian Food
Review: Besides the wonderful narrative of the origins of this countryside cuisine, these recipes are bold, basic and sumptuous. This is food that sticks to your ribs, and romances your tastebuds.I've grown especially fond of several recipes, unemcumbered in their ingredients and prep, but so flavorful and magnificent to share with dining guests: e.g. Braised Pork with Three Peppers and Linguine with Pistachio-Almond Pesto. Sidebar discussions are unique and teach us much, e.g. How to Spice up your minestrone, or "buying cornmeal for polenta." This is one of those cookbooks to wear out in reading and cooking and sharing and loving.
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Summary: Rich, Uncomplicated Italian Food
Review: Besides the wonderful narrative of the origins of this countryside cuisine, these recipes are bold, basic and sumptuous. This is food that sticks to your ribs, and romances your tastebuds. I've grown especially fond of several recipes, unemcumbered in their ingredients and prep, but so flavorful and magnificent to share with dining guests: e.g. Braised Pork with Three Peppers and Linguine with Pistachio-Almond Pesto. Sidebar discussions are unique and teach us much, e.g. How to Spice up your minestrone, or "buying cornmeal for polenta." This is one of those cookbooks to wear out in reading and cooking and sharing and loving.
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Summary: not as good as it seems
Review: I bought this title after looking and looking at many reviews for Italian cookbooks. I have made 5-6 recipes and cannot rave about even one.
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Summary: THE PLEASURE IS MINE
Review: I cannot tell you how wonderful it is to find a book like Lynne Rossetto Kasper's "The Italian Country Table".I collect cook books and books that even mention cooking. This one is a gem. It is the type where you can quickly find a particular recipe and/or the type to leisurely read in your favorite chair, underling and referencing all the while. *sigh* This is truly a work of delicious art. Thank you Ms. Kasper, thank you, thank you, and thank you.
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Summary: A Wonderful New Book from the Author of "The Splendid Table"
Review: I've been a great fan of Lynne Rossetto Kaspar's "The Splendid Table" for several years now, having prepared and enjoyed many great meals from that award winning book. Although "The Italian Country Table" is less comprehensive and detailed than "The Splendid Table," it offers an irresistable selection of recipes from the Italian countryside. The fabulous food of Apulia is one of Italy's greatest culinary secrets, and Kasper gives us a delicious sampling of wonderful Apulian dishes like Pizza Rustica, Fava Beans, and Pasta Puttenesca. My copy is already stained and soiled, the sign of a cookbook that gets a lot of use. These are recipes you'll make again and again. And Kasper is a wonderful writer as well. The book is filled with lore and stories from Italian families throughout the countryside.
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Summary: A Wonderful New Book from the Author of "The Splendid Table"
Review: I've been a great fan of Lynne Rossetto Kaspar's "The Splendid Table" for several years now, having prepared and enjoyed many great meals from that award winning book. Although "The Italian Country Table" is less comprehensive and detailed than "The Splendid Table," it offers an irresistable selection of recipes from the Italian countryside. The fabulous food of Apulia is one of Italy's greatest culinary secrets, and Kasper gives us a delicious sampling of wonderful Apulian dishes like Pizza Rustica, Fava Beans, and Pasta Puttenesca. My copy is already stained and soiled, the sign of a cookbook that gets a lot of use. These are recipes you'll make again and again. And Kasper is a wonderful writer as well. The book is filled with lore and stories from Italian families throughout the countryside.
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Summary: Lynn and Italian Country Food - - a perfect combination
Review: Lynn's books combine history with recipes. You have the feeling you are sharing the Italian tradition, a link to great food. Anyone who enjoyed the extra food histories in her "The Splendid Table" must sample this great new Italian cookbook. Her researching is painstaking and exhaustive. I know because I first met her in 1984; I prepared a dinner for her that year, using a new recipe for butterflied leg of lamb on the grill, and only later did I discover it was her recipe from an issue of "Bon Appetit". That meal was a highlight of my amateur career, shared only with the pleasure of being a part of her pre-publication surprise party for submission of the manuscript of "The Splendid Table". Lynn's recipes live - - they talk to you. You experience them. This new volume is a must for lovers of good food and instructive cookbooks. Dan Davis
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