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Title: The Wiseguy Cookbook: My Favorite Recipes from My Life As a Goodfella to Cooking on the Run by Henry Hill, Priscilla Davis, Nicholas Pileggi ISBN: 0-451-20706-8 Publisher: New American Library Pub. Date: 01 October, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (15 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: One of my 3 favorite cookbooks
Comment: This is one of the 3 cookbooks that have changed what I eat and the way I cook. Henry Hill has some excellent classic recipes and adds his own little twists to each recipe. Having lived away from major cities myself for some time, I especially could relate to his struggles to find the right ingredients. His mob stories are amusing too.
I read the book cover to cover because it is kind of in a story form. Hill will tell a few stories about a particular place he lived and then give recipes for the food he ate there. I highly recommend this cookbook. It is a must have.
Rating: 5
Summary: There's the Sopranos, and then there's the Goodfellas
Comment: Don't dis the Sopranos book -- just don't say it's the same thing as this. The Sopranos Family Cookbook is marketing with good recipes, whereas Henry Hill's masterpiece here is as much a retelling of his biography as it is an excellent Sicilian-American cookbook with a heavy emphasis on making do when you can't get what you need.
I think the recipe that sums this book up best is the Oven Penitentiary Sauce, a concoction that Henry and his prison buddies cooked up for those days when the guards have taken all your pots and pans away and all you've got is the steam table pans and the prison bakery. The whole book is like that -- real food, salvaged when something goes wrong. Lots of Italian, but a few surprises from other parts of the country (particularly the South), reflecting Henry's travels in Witness Protection. Substitutions are a big deal too -- from the pork-for-veal scam Hill learned as a kid working in a pizzeria all the way up. Hill's message to cooks: you can always find a way to make it work.
At my bookstore we sold a couple of hundred copies of the Sopranos book over the Holidays, and that was pretty cool. But I had two standard recommendations to go along with that -- Italian Classics from Cooks Illustrated and this one. Of all three (and I say buy them all), fuhgeddaboutit, this is the best -- it's very autobiographical, and will leave you very, very hungry at the end.
Rating: 5
Summary: I love this cookbook!!
Comment: I finally have learned how to cook since I purchased this cookbook!! The helpful hints Henry gives about how to make the
dishes are awesome! I have never eaten or cooked so well! The
stories behind the recipes are fun and interesting reading! Love
you Henry!!
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Title: The Sopranos Family Cookbook: As Compiled by Artie Bucco by Allen Rucker, Michele Scicolone ISBN: 0446530573 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: 24 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The Mafia Cookbook: With 37 New, Foolproof Recipes to Die for by Joseph Iannuzzi ISBN: 0743226275 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 01 November, 2001 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: A Goodfella's Guide to New York: Your Personal Tour Through the Mob's Notorious Haunts, Hair-Raising Crime Scenes, and Infamous Hot Spots by Henry Hill, Bryon Schreckengost ISBN: 0761515380 Publisher: Three Rivers Press (CA) Pub. Date: 25 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: A Goomba's Guide to Life by Steven R. Schirripa, Charles Fleming ISBN: 1400046394 Publisher: Clarkson N Potter Publishers Pub. Date: 15 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: Wiseguy: Life in a Mafia Family by Nicholas Pileggi ISBN: 0671723227 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 1990 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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