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.Delizia!
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by: John Dickie

May 01, 2008
In tracing the historical development of Italian cuisine, John Dickie demolishes the stereotypical image of the rural Italian cook and relates the Italian approach to food to a range of distinctive regional styles each centred around a major city. He examines the challenges of cooking and eating in Italy from massive medieval banquets to the cholera-infested slums of Naples, considering the political and social issues that have contributed to the food we would define as 'Italian' today.
This is not really a book about types of food, it is a cultural and social history, an examination of how attitudes to eating have evolved and been shaped by social and economic considerations. Dickie is interested in those who wrote about food, those who ... Read More:
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.Frankie Dettori's Italian Family Cookbook
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by: Frankie Dettori, Marco Pierre White, with Alexandra Antonioni

October 01, 2007
from a dynamic Italian best friend duo:-
jockey, Frankie Dettori and top chef, Marco PIerre White!

'Here they share their favourite recipes that they have been cooking at home for years, handed down from generation to generation..........'

From Marco's introduction:-
...'If this book ends up covered in flour and sticky finger prints and with the odd note in the margin, then and only then will you have realised its true value.'

From the back cover:-

'Simple, heart-warming and delicious. Nothing beats Frankie and Marco's good old-fashioned Italian recipes - just as their mammas use to make them.'

224 super high quality shiny pages split over 9 main chapters:-

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.La Dolce Vita: Sweet Things from the Italian Home Kitchen (Mitchell Beazley Food)
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by: Ursula Ferrigno

September 15, 2005
We have been long awaiting a book of sweet treats since Ursula's Cakes and Puddings sadly went out of print. This new book has exceded out expectations -not only is it choc full of wonderful puddings and cakes but also icecream (Italian ice creams need we say more-roll on summer and the opportunity to try). Our two favourites in the Books for Cooks cafe are the Farmhouse Apple Cake (has customers clamouring for more) and the Positano Chocolate and Almond cake (the addition of lemon zest to a choclate cake is original and inspired). Delicious !
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.The Oxford Companion to Italian Food (Oxford Companions)
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by: Gillian Riley

October 25, 2007
We have been long awaiting a book of sweet treats since Ursula's Cakes and Puddings sadly went out of print. This new book has exceded out expectations -not only is it choc full of wonderful puddings and cakes but also icecream (Italian ice creams need we say more-roll on summer and the opportunity to try). Our two favourites in the Books for Cooks cafe are the Farmhouse Apple Cake (has customers clamouring for more) and the Positano Chocolate and Almond cake (the addition of lemon zest to a choclate cake is original and inspired). Delicious !
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.500 Italian Recipes: Easy-to-cook Classic Italian Dishes from Rustic and Regional to Cool and Contemporary (Food & Drink): Easy-to-cook Classic Italian ... to Cool and Contemporary (Food & Drink)
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by: Jeni Wright

October 02, 2006
We have been long awaiting a book of sweet treats since Ursula's Cakes and Puddings sadly went out of print. This new book has exceded out expectations -not only is it choc full of wonderful puddings and cakes but also icecream (Italian ice creams need we say more-roll on summer and the opportunity to try). Our two favourites in the Books for Cooks cafe are the Farmhouse Apple Cake (has customers clamouring for more) and the Positano Chocolate and Almond cake (the addition of lemon zest to a choclate cake is original and inspired). Delicious !
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.Everyday Italian: 125 Simple and Delicious Recipes
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by: Giada de Laurentiis

February 22, 2005
Those of us who watch Food Network are familiar with some of the top names in cooking, and Giada De Laurentiis comes up in the Top 10 list. Her presentation skills, youth appearance wearing a low-cut top attracts many viewers and her cooking techniques are simple and choice of the recipes on her show is marginal. Yet for those of us who are interested in Italian cooking with an American touch, we have to look for her recopies. Until now we had to depend on recipes published on the Food Network. In this long-awaited first book, she does the same as she does on her show - helps you put Italian dinner on the table for friends or just for the kids with a minimum effort and a maximum of flavor. The book reveals sevaral ways to make red sauce, Pesto and ... Read More:
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.River Cafe Cookbook: Bk.2
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by: Rose Gray, Ruth Rogers

May 07, 1998
To understand why the River Cafe books are as they are, one must first understand Italian cooking. It has more of a regional basis than any other european country, although France comes close. They use the best of the local produce.

What Ruth and Rosie provide are regional receipes that are authentic, although somewhat restaurant-ised. If a dish requires Chianti, then it will be Tuscan in origin, if it require Barolo then it will be Piedmontese. To be critical of this, is to fail to understand Italian cooking.

This is not a book that panders to the "what can I get in the supermarket" crowd. This is not "chicken italiano" with some tomatoes and a few herbs russled up in 5 minutes.

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.Antonio Carluccio's Italian Feast: Over 100 Recipes Inspired by the Flavours of Northern Italy
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by: Antonio Carluccio

September 12, 1996
I have found this book to be a constant source of inspiration for my attempts liven up the boring bolognese and have used the spicy prawns with pasta on numerous occasions to great effect.

Many of the recipes do, however, require a little more than rudimentary cooking skill, a well stocked cupboard and often a little detective work to track down an obscure ingredient or a suitable alternative. The results of perseverance are worthwhile though.
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.The Wiseguy Cookbook: My Favorite Recipes from My Life as a Goodfella to Cooking on the Run
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by: Henry Hill, Priscilla Davis

October 01, 2002
I had a difficult time finding this book - so hats off to Amazon (once again).

When I watched 'Goodfellas', I was just as taken by the food as by the plot - right down to the final scenes where HH is frantically preparing his family a meal, while being followed around by the police, in a completely paranoid state. I was really glad when HH came out of hiding (he's still in a witness protection programme) to write this book.

Many of the recipes in here are painstakingly detailed - I spent a whole afternoon preparing meatballs in tomato sauce. Worth every second though. All the recipes are delicious, and taste all the better for all the hard work.

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.Complete Italian Vegetarian Cookbook
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by: Jack Bishop

October 09, 1997
I've only been a vegetarian for six months. This book has many great recipes but after enjoying using it for a while, I discovered that there is no such thing as vegetarian parmesan cheese. All parmesan contains rennet, which comes from the stomach linings of slaughtered newly born calves.
As a vegetarian, this notion is repulsive to me, so why does this 'vegetarian' cook book seem to use parmesan cheese on every other page?
There is a paragraph in the appendix all about parmesan cheese but there is no mention of rennet or it's origins. This book should not be marketed as a vegetarian cook book.
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