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Made in Italy: Food and Stories by: Giorgio Locatelli |
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Binding: Hardcover EAN: 9781841157016 ISBN: 1841157015 Label: Fourth Estate Manufacturer: Fourth Estate Number Of Pages: 512 Publication Date: September 04, 2006 Publisher: Fourth Estate Studio: Fourth Estate Sales Rank: 63979 Related Items:
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Editorial Review: Elfreda Pownall, Stella Magazine: 'Britain's foremost Italian cook produces terrific recipes...Part autobiography, part cookery book...a book to treasure.' Saturday Telegraph Magazine: 'a fashionable combination of charming anecdotes and stories about his family that could double as recipes.' Waterstones Books Quarterly : 'a beautiful, evocative book...deserves to become a classic.' Gordon Ramsay, The Times: '...quite simply the perfect book...Buy this and you'll never want to look at another Italian cookbook again.' Telegraph: 'the ultimate gift for anyone interested in Italian food.' Tom Jaine, The Guardian: 'Large and handsome...guiding us effortlessly through some of the riches of Italian foodstuffs.' The Independent: 'The equivalent of about five ordinary cookbooks slammed together.' Sunday Times: 'An old-fashioned cookery book for a serious foodie.' Evening Standard: 'what a joy. It provides an authoritative guide to every aspect of Italian cooking...' Rose Prince, Telegraph: 'Locatelli tells his promised tales and writes recipes in great detail.' Customer Reviews
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 Rating: - An instant classicI bought this book on a whim whilst on holiday and now find myself reading it from cover to cover. The whole concept is to put the food and the chef in context; the book reads like no other cookery book I have come across. A whole range of ingredients are explained in short essays throughout the book (eg olives, olive oil, balsamic vinegar, parmesan etc). The recipes are split into starters, soups, risotto, fish, meat, pasta and deserts. In amongst the essays and recipes are wonderful photographs and short autobiographical vignettes from Locatelli. I also have the excellent 'Sliver Spoon', but it is eclipsed by 'Made in Italy'. The former is a huge repository of recipes, listed in exhaustive detail. Locatelli's book on the other ... Read More: Rating: - A 'must buy'Inspirational. One of the best cooking books I've bought in a long time. The combination of stories, recipes and product information sets the book apart from others. His passion really comes through in this book so much so that I enrolled on a 'pasta by hand' course soon after buying the book. I'm eagerly working through the recipes, all of which so far have been winners. Buy it now, you won't be disappointed. Rating: - The passion for foodThis book is great. Not only the reciepes are very good, not only the paper quality is excellent as well as the photos, it is the narrator who makes this book great. Giorgio put all his love for italian cuisine on this. This is not just a recipe book, this is a book about Italy and its history, it's a book about food and nutrition, it's a volume with tricks that only italian grandmothers know. I can only highly reccomend this book: you won't go wrong with it. Rating: - The best food book in my collectionThis is not just a book of recipes - its a book about italian food, with recipes to punctuate the information. I have many recipe books, and this is by far the best so far..... well written, well presented, and the first recipe book I ve actually taken to read in bed. HIGHLY recommended. Rating: - PerfettoI love this book. It has beautiful fotographs, wonderful personal stories which as a born and bred 'northern' Italian can relate to and the food recipes are just magnificent. Yes I agree to some extent with one reviewer who writes that the food is predominantly northern Italian but if this reviewer knows anything at all about Italian food then he should also know that in Italy food is never just 'Italian' but regional. You should never own just one Italian cook book but as many as there are regions in Italy because if its a good book the recipes will all be authetic to that region. This is where the true beauty of Italian food lies in its diversity according to its region. Made in Italy is food at its best; it contains fairly easy recipes ... Read More: |
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