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Title: Lidia's Italian-American Kitchen by Lidia Matticchio Bastianich ISBN: 0-375-41150-X Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 23 October, 2001 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.66 (29 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Better Than My Nonna's Legendary Meatballs!
Comment: What a cookbook! Finally a cookbook packed with the best and most delicious Italian-American recipes you could find anywhere. I was asked to cater a birthday party for a 79-year old Italian woman so I decided to use Lidia's recipes. Every single dish came out absolutely tasty and beautiful...even better than what you usually order at a neighborhood Italian-American restaurant in the Northeast. The meatballs were better than my Sicilian grandmother's legendary meatballs! Everyone raved about the meat raviolis which I served in a grated parmigiano-butter sauce. Numerous raviolis broke apart in the boiling water so I'm not sure what I did was wrong. Maybe I should roll out the pasta dough a bit thicker the next time. I was never a fan of caponata (eggplant appetizer) until I tried Lidia's recipe. It was the best I've ever tasted. I love fried peppers so I used the recipe from the book. They turned out a bit bitter from an abundance of browned garlic. Next time, I will omit the garlic. I think the peppers taste great on their own whether they are roasted or fried. I wish most Italian restaurants in American would use Lidia's recipes for tomato sauces which taste very fresh. The book is heavy and thick... comes with beautiful photos. It's filled with warmth...almost like a grandmother's personal recipe book that she refuses to share with anyone. It's one of the most beautifully designed cookbooks I've seen in ages. Mangia!
Rating: 4
Summary: Best Reference Book Available On Italian American Cuisine
Comment: Everyone knows that Lidia Bastianich knows Italian cuisine, but is this new cookbook of hers something you would want to have in your Italian cookbook collection? This cookbook was created from her popular television show, and in it Lidia shares the type of recipes she first found when arriving in America as a young woman. The recipes are pretty typical of basic Italian American cuisine, and you will find such standards as "Rigatoni alla Boscaiola", and "Bistecca alla Pizzaiola" throughout the book. I did not find any recipe in this book that I have not heard of before, although some were prepared a little differently than I am used to.
Almost all of these recipes would be right at home on my Italian Mother-In-Law's kitchen table, and could easily be reproduced by a cook with minimal experience. Peppered throughout the book are instructions with photographs of some basic kitchen skills that a novice cook would find very helpful. The photographs, although not plentiful enough for my taste are very attractive and will cause you to start planning your next Italian meal. Something I did find in this book was that all ingredients listed would be available to everyone which was not so in Lidia's previous books. In my opinion, although I did not find anything new or unique in Lidia's new book, if you enjoy Italian American food than this is one of the best references you will find available at this time.
Rating: 5
Summary: Buy this book if you want the best of Italy
Comment: I am an Italian American who grew up helping my mother cook. While I was a professional chef for many years and have maintained my interest in food after I moved on to a non-cooking career, I lost my touch with the foods of my youth. Lidia has given all my childhood memories back to me and then some.
The recipes are authentic because they turn out perfectly and they taste like I remember them. Best of all is their utter simplicity. Lidia's talent comes from combining a few very fresh ingredients using proper technique into a mouth watering dish.
Anyone who has seen the show knows the passion that Lidia has for food. Just watching her enjoy the dish she has prepared can make you hungry. Well, this passion spills over to the book in every recipe and in every description or cooks note in the book.
If you love Italian American food and want to get as close to authentic as you can get, then buy this book.
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Title: Lidia's Italian Table : More Than 200 Recipes From The First Lady Of Italian Cooking by Lidia Bastianich ISBN: 0688154107 Publisher: William Morrow Pub. Date: 02 September, 1998 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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Title: La Cucina Di Lidia : Recipes and Memories from Italy's Adriatic Coast by Lidia Matticchio Bastianich, Jay Jacobs ISBN: 0767914228 Publisher: Broadway Pub. Date: 08 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: La Cucina Di Lidia by LIDIA MATTICCHIO BASTIANICH ISBN: 0385245114 Publisher: Broadway Pub. Date: 01 November, 1990 List Price(USD): $36.50 |
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Title: Michael Chiarello's Casual Cooking by Michael Chiarello, Janet Kessel Fletcher, Deborah Jones ISBN: 0811833836 Publisher: Chronicle Books Pub. Date: September, 2002 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: Mario Batali Simple Italian Food: Recipes from My Two Villages by Mario Batali ISBN: 0609603000 Publisher: Clarkson Potter Pub. Date: 29 September, 1998 List Price(USD): $32.50 |
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