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Title: Cooking the Roman Way : Authentic Recipes from the Home Cooks and Trattorias of Rome by David Downie ISBN: 0-06-018892-8 Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: 22 October, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.91 (11 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: An Indispensable book for any Italian food lover
Comment: A book on the cooking of Rome was long overdue. Hooray for David Downie and his meticulous research into the myriad secrets of Rome's great culinary traditions! I was enchanted to find a recipe for Vignarola, that incomparable Roman spring vegetable stew, and to discover delicious new pasta dishes such as a mouth-watering concoction of spaghetti with fresh favas, lettuce hearts and pancetta. Not to mention the sublime sweet peppers stuffed with mozzarella and anchovies and the delectable fried artichokes - Roman-style. David Downie vividly brings alive the day-to-day, season-to-season, rich kaleidoscope of the eternal city's trattorias, open-air markets, butchers, bakers and grocers galore.This beautiful book is richly illustrated by Alison Harris's marvellous photographs which admirably capture the essence of Rome and the Romans. Bravo Downie and Harris for an indispensable addition to any food lover or serious cook's library. Cooking the Roman Way certainly tops my Christmas gift list!
Rating: 5
Summary: If you love Italian food as I do, you must buy this book.
Comment: The recipes are great. I especially loved the carbonara and the spicy Amatriciana tomato sauce. Finally I have a cookbook with my favorite recipes! I own many Italian cookbooks but I wasn't aware that some of the classics I love are from Rome. A friend gave this book to me as a gift. It's a beautiful book with lavish color photos. I like it so much I'm going to give it to everyone on my Christmas list.
Rating: 4
Summary: nostalgic
Comment: well, what can I say: having lived in Rome many many years, the title caught my attention. Yes, it is all true, those stories, those foods, those open-air markets, those wild greens sold as "misticanza". I am particularly grateful for the names of the individuals portrayed in the pictures. And something that other cookbooks don't mention, but this does, is the difference between american Globe artichokes and the Romanesco artichoke. My only regret, and unavoidable in my opinion, is that as italian society is evolving, those people portrayed in the book in bringing us the sources of these unique foods, as the old babuska-like produce market ladies that roamed the Appian way and Valley of the Caffarella for those wild greens to sell it like a sort of "spring-mix", are a species destined to extinction. The market Campo de Fiori is not anymore a market for the masses, but a market for the very wealthy, where peaches shipped in winter from Argentina are sold for two Euros each. In a way, the title given to this review reflects the fact that this book is really describing this almost extinct world. How the masses, now living in the suburbs and away from open markets of downtown rome, cope in continuing the culinary traditions of their parents and grandparents in a society that limits the traditional role of the home-maker that has plenty of free time to shop in morning-only markets, is the real question for the future. I say to the authors, see what the supermarkets in the suburbs are packing and selling in the produce section, and you'll see what nostalgic cookbooks will be written 30-40 years from now.
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Title: Guiliano Bugialli's Food of Naples and Campania by Giuliano Bugialli ISBN: 1584792116 Publisher: Stewart, Tabori & Chang Pub. Date: March, 2003 List Price(USD): $50.00 |
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Title: Rustico : Regional Italian Country Cooking by Micol Negrin ISBN: 0609609440 Publisher: Clarkson Potter Pub. Date: 08 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: Naples at Table : Cooking in Campania by Arthur Schwartz ISBN: 006018261X Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: November, 1998 List Price(USD): $30.95 |
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Title: Cucina Siciliana by Clarissa Hyman, Peter Cassidy ISBN: 1566564336 Publisher: Interlink Pub Group Pub. Date: April, 2002 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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Title: Aquavit : And the New Scandinavian Cuisine by Marcus Samuelsson ISBN: 0618109412 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: October, 2003 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
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