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- Passione - delicious!
When Jamie Oliver showed the front cover of this book to the cameras during one of his "Jamie's School Dinners" programmes, I leapt onto the Amazon website and ordered the book. This has to be one of the most delicious collections of recipes on my book shelf. I've already made the chocolate cake, with its chocolate sauce on pages 242/243 and they are delicious. I would recommend this book to anyone.
Rating: - The esence of Italian cooking
I have many books on Italian cooking, but this is my favourite. A few carefully selected recipes - some simple, some complex - represent the distillation of Contaldo's experience. Many feature methods, techniques and combinations of ingredients that you've probably never used before. Some of the methods are transferable, so that once you've mastered his recipes for, say, sea bream or sea bass, you can use the methods for cooking other fish. This book gives you a lifetime's devotion to fine ingredients lovingly combined and prepared.
Rating: - Our man from Amalfi
How many times have you read a cook book review and seen those words "The next best thing to eating at the restaurant"? Well, this book is one that for which I don't mind repeating that phrase. Gennaro Contaldo gives you a better idea than anyone or anything what Italian cooking is all about. His writing is lively, enthustiastic and conveyed in a manner which almost makes you feel he's right behind you helping you cook a dish. Like most top chefs these days, he emphasises the importance of seasonal fresh produce. But it's also very refreshing to read that even he will use things like good quality powdered stock now and again when he doesn't have time for the real thing.
Buy this book .. the recipes are simple, healthy and perfect. Having this man as his mentor, it's no wonder Jamie Oliver has been so successful.
- Passione - delicious!When Jamie Oliver showed the front cover of this book to the cameras during one of his "Jamie's School Dinners" programmes, I leapt onto the Amazon website and ordered the book. This has to be one of the most delicious collections of recipes on my book shelf. I've already made the chocolate cake, with its chocolate sauce on pages 242/243 and they are delicious. I would recommend this book to anyone.
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- The esence of Italian cookingI have many books on Italian cooking, but this is my favourite. A few carefully selected recipes - some simple, some complex - represent the distillation of Contaldo's experience. Many feature methods, techniques and combinations of ingredients that you've probably never used before. Some of the methods are transferable, so that once you've mastered his recipes for, say, sea bream or sea bass, you can use the methods for cooking other fish. This book gives you a lifetime's devotion to fine ingredients lovingly combined and prepared.
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- Our man from AmalfiHow many times have you read a cook book review and seen those words "The next best thing to eating at the restaurant"? Well, this book is one that for which I don't mind repeating that phrase. Gennaro Contaldo gives you a better idea than anyone or anything what Italian cooking is all about. His writing is lively, enthustiastic and conveyed in a manner which almost makes you feel he's right behind you helping you cook a dish. Like most top chefs these days, he emphasises the importance of seasonal fresh produce. But it's also very refreshing to read that even he will use things like good quality powdered stock now and again when he doesn't have time for the real thing.
Buy this book .. the recipes are simple, healthy and perfect. Having this man as his mentor, it's no wonder Jamie Oliver has been so successful.