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Title: The Frugal Gourmet Cooks Italian: Recipes from the New and Old Worlds, Simplified for the American Kitchen by Jeff Smith ISBN: 0-688-07591-6 Publisher: William Morrow Pub. Date: October, 1993 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Authentic Cooking
Comment: Most Americans think of Chicken Parmessan, Alfredo sauce or Italian salad dressing when they hear Italian cooking. As an American soldier stationed in Italy I've never seen either of the above. They are all American inventions.
Italian cooking is very diversified. Venice is big on fish and seafood while the inland areas eat more meats. Jeff Smith's book is as close to authentic Italian cooking as one can get. The sheer number of recipes alone will give a person an insight of how Italian cuisine influenced modern American food.
The amazing thing is that there is at least one recipe that I wanted to try that I couldn't find all the ingridients for. It called for a Sicilian wine and being stationed near Venice I couldn't find it in any of the local wine stores. Great book. I will continue to use it for years after I come back to the US. It will remind me of the years that I spent here.
Rating: 5
Summary: Great book for neophyte Italian cooks.
Comment: As an Italian tired of Olive Garden-fare Italian cuisine, I bought Smith's book with two ideas in mind: 1) I wanted to understand both the context of the dishes I hoped to prepare and the constituent ingredients (for instance, how is Parmesan-Reggiano made?) and 2) coming to the book with little previous cooking experience -- let alone Italian cooking -- I wanted to be able to prepare most of the dishes in the book. Smith's book excelled at both these. The book is well-written and easy to follow, but avoids pedantry. Some of my favorite recipes are: Italian peasant bread, Italian Rolled Chicken, Bracciole, and the Fresh Tomato Sauce Sicilian.
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Title: The Frugal Gourmet on Our Immigrant Ancestors: Recipes You Should Have Gotten from Your Grandmother by Jeff Smith, Chris Cart ISBN: 0688075908 Publisher: William Morrow Pub. Date: November, 1990 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Title: The Frugal Gourmet Cooks American by Jeff Smith, Chris Cart ISBN: 0688063470 Publisher: William Morrow Pub. Date: November, 1987 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: The Frugal Gourmet Cooks Three Ancient Cuisines: China, Greece, and Rome by Jeff Smith ISBN: 0688075894 Publisher: William Morrow Pub. Date: September, 1989 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Title: The Frugal Gourmet's Culinary Handbook: An Updated Version of an American Classic on Food and Cooking by Jeff Smith, Craig Wollam, Charles Fellows ISBN: 0688090710 Publisher: William Morrow Pub. Date: September, 1991 List Price(USD): $27.00 |
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Title: Frugal Gourmet by Jeff Smith ISBN: 0517203650 Publisher: Random House Value Pub Pub. Date: 12 April, 1999 List Price(USD): $9.99 |
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