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Summary: I couldn't give it 5 stars...
Review: I am a good, experienced, but very LIMITED cook. And, as I've gotten older, I've found myself more and more interested in eating healthier. AND, I've heard over the years about the 'healthiness' of most italian food. So, since none of the cookbooks I had really had a lot of italian, I asked for a book for christmas.
My mom picked this book, and I am very impressed with it. It is PACKED with recipes! After a 2-page introduction to the regions of italy, by Page 6 you're hitting recipes, and they continue ONE RECIPE PER PAGE!! until only ONE (1) page before the end of the book!
By putting one recipe per page, with beautiful pictures of the final product AND pictures of selected 'steps' in the preparation, this makes for the most user-friendly cookbook I've ever seen. Very, very impressive.SO, you may ask, why not a 5-star rating? It goes back to my lack of experience cooking I mentioned at the beginning of this review. Many of these recipes call for items I simple do NOT know what they are! It may be authentic, and I can appreciate that, but I can't make a food if I don't know what I'm buying, and neither do the teenagers working at the grocery store! Arugula? red chard?fennel?porcini?prosciutto?pancetta? I'm sure I can search and find these items, but a few pages detailing WHAT these 'more-rare' items are would have been helpful.
Rating:
Summary: I couldn't give it 5 stars...
Review: I am a good, experienced, but very LIMITED cook. And, as I've gotten older, I've found myself more and more interested in eating healthier. AND, I've heard over the years about the 'healthiness' of most italian food. So, since none of the cookbooks I had really had a lot of italian, I asked for a book for christmas.
My mom picked this book, and I am very impressed with it. It is PACKED with recipes! After a 2-page introduction to the regions of italy, by Page 6 you're hitting recipes, and they continue ONE RECIPE PER PAGE!! until only ONE (1) page before the end of the book!
By putting one recipe per page, with beautiful pictures of the final product AND pictures of selected 'steps' in the preparation, this makes for the most user-friendly cookbook I've ever seen. Very, very impressive. SO, you may ask, why not a 5-star rating? It goes back to my lack of experience cooking I mentioned at the beginning of this review. Many of these recipes call for items I simple do NOT know what they are! It may be authentic, and I can appreciate that, but I can't make a food if I don't know what I'm buying, and neither do the teenagers working at the grocery store! Arugula? red chard?fennel?porcini?prosciutto?pancetta? I'm sure I can search and find these items, but a few pages detailing WHAT these 'more-rare' items are would have been helpful.
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Summary: What's cooking cookbooks...
Review: I have two cookbooks "What's cooking..." The baking and Italian. I gonna tell You that this books are absolutely wonderful!!!Every recipe have a picture so You can see what You want to do and what to expect in result. Buy it don't wait. The price is great!I highly recomend this books!
Geni from Massachusetts.
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Summary: What's cooking cookbooks...
Review: I have two cookbooks "What's cooking..." The baking and Italian. I gonna tell You that this books are absolutely wonderful!!!Every recipe have a picture so You can see what You want to do and what to expect in result. Buy it don't wait. The price is great!I highly recomend this books!
Geni from Massachusetts.
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Summary: Every recipe has a picture
Review: This is a wonderful cookbook. Recipes from all the regions of Italy. The ingredients can be found on your grocery store shelf. The recipes are actually simple, not complicated at all, and not a long list of ingredients. From Snacks to Dessert. Well worth the price.
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Summary: Every recipe has a picture
Review: This is a wonderful cookbook. Recipes from all the regions of Italy. The ingredients can be found on your grocery store shelf. The recipes are actually simple, not complicated at all, and not a long list of ingredients. From Snacks to Dessert. Well worth the price.
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