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Everyday Italian: 125 Simple And Delicious Recipes (Hardcover)
by Giada De Laurentiis
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Author: Giada De Laurentiis
Publisher: Clarkson Potter
Pub. in: February, 2005
ISBN: 1400052580
Pages: 256
Measurements: 10 x 7.8 x 0.8 inches
Origin of product: USA
Order code: BA00935
Other information: ISBN-13: 9781400052585
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- Awards & Credential -
The New York Times Bestseller and ranks #237 in Books out of millions on Amazon.com as of February 6, 2007 |
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Want to cook great Italian food? Tired of spending too much time cooking or finding the right ingredients? You will be amazed at how well this cooking book is put together, especially considering it's the author's very first attempt at a book like this. This cookbook is a great first step for anyone aspiring to cook Italian dishes at home for family or guests. Giada is a trained chef and it shows in her understanding of her dishes and their ingredients. The recipes presented here are very doable by the average person and are somewhat more Americanized versions than what a purist might consider Italian. With its cover image of the fetching de Laurentiis wearing a low-cut top and its promise of easy, tasty Italian recipes, this cookbook is sure to draw in home cooks who don't know how to make a basic marinara sauce and want to be introduced them to the beauty and simplicity of Italian cuisine. The book also tells you how and how long many of the dishes can be stored.
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Food lovers, housewives, professional cooks, or hotel and restaurant managers.
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Giada De Laurentiis is the star of Everyday Italian on Food Network. She attended the Cordon Bleu in Paris, and then worked in a variety of Los Angeles restaurants, including Wolfgang Puck’s Spago, before starting her own catering and private-chef company, GDL Foods. The granddaughter of movie producer Dino De Laurentiis, she was born in Rome and grew up in Los Angeles, where she now lives. This is her first book.
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In her hit Food Network show Everyday Italian, Giada De Laurentiis shows you how to cook delicious, beautiful food in a flash. And here, in her long-awaited first book, she does the same - helps you put a fabulous dinner on the table tonight, for friends or just for the kids, with a minimum of fuss and a maximum of flavor. She makes it all look easy, because it is.
Everyday Italian is true to its title: the fresh, simple recipes are incredibly quick and accessible, and also utterly mouth-watering - perfect for everyday cooking. And the book is focused on the real-life considerations of what you actually have in your refrigerator and pantry (no mail-order ingredients here) and what you're in the mood for - whether a simply sauced pasta or a hearty family-friendly roast, these great recipes cover every contingency. So, for example, you'll find dishes that you can make solely from pantry ingredients, or those that transform lowly leftovers into exquisite entrées (including brilliant ideas for leftover pasta), and those that satisfy your yearning to have something sweet baking in the oven. There are 7 ways to make red sauce more interesting, 6 different preparations of the classic cutlet, 5 perfect pestos, 4 creative uses for prosciutto, 3 variations on basic polenta, 2 great steaks, and 1 sublime chocolate tiramisù - plus 100 other recipes that turn everyday ingredients into speedy but special dinners.
What's more, Everyday Italian is organized according to what type of food you want tonight- whether a soul-warming stew for Sunday supper, a quick sauté for a weeknight, or a baked pasta for potluck. These categories will help you figure out what to cook in an instant, with such choices as fresh-from-the-pantry appetizers, sauceless pastas, everyday roasts, and stuffed vegetables - whatever you're in the mood for, you'll be able to find a simple, delicious recipe for it here. That's the beauty of Italian home cooking, and that's what Giada De Laurentiis offers here - the essential recipes to make a great Italian dinner. Tonight.
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Chef Steph (MSL quote), USA
<2007-02-06 00:00>
I am a personal chef and find myself returning again and again to Everyday Italian for inspiration and simple, great recipes. My cooking clients have greatly enjoyed her Chicken Piccata, Stuffed Tomatoes, Turkey Meatballs with Marinara, Shrimp Fra Diavolo, Tuna and Tomato Sauce, Grilled Lamb Chops, and Steak Florentine. Nothing I've tried has been bad, unlike many cookbooks which make you wonder what you did wrong and if they actually tested their recipes.
Authentic? Seems close to me. But whatever it is, it works for me and my clients. I can't wait for her next cookbook! Buy this!
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Julie Perillo (MSL quote), USA
<2007-02-06 00:00>
I have found the recipes in this book to be very useful. They are easy to prepare with a minimum amount of specialized ingredients. She brings many new ideas to those of us who have been preparing Italian meals for years. Especially delicious is the polenta and the rib-eye steak with roasted peppers and arugula.
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A. Harvey (MSL quote), USA
<2007-02-06 00:00>
Before receiving Everday Italian as a Chistmas gift,I hated to cook. From grocery shopping to reading recipes, I despised it all.
Now I've finally found a cookbook that makes me want to cook! Giada's recipes are easy to follow and for the most part, quick to make. Best of all, most of her ingredients can be found at your local grocery store for a reasonable price.
At first I was irritated by the lack of finished recipe pictures in the cookbook. Once I started cooking, I realized I didn't even need them - the recipes are that simple. I'm not a gourmet chef so I don't want complicated recipes, even if they do taste a bit more robust or authentic. I'm just somebody trying to find the inspiration to enjoy cooking and eating again.
I've enjoyed almost every recipe I've made from this cookbook and I look forward to cooking at the end of a long work day. My favorite recipes have been the marinara sauce (I can't believe I made my own sauce), the bolognese sauce, the chicken piccata, and the chicken parm. Tonight I'm going to make ziti with asparagus, smoked mozzarella, and prosciutto.
I would highly recommend this book to anyone who thinks they don't have the time or the finances to make fresh, great tasting Italian food. If the thought of one more night of grocery store, jarred tomato sauce makes you want to scream, this book is for you!
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David Schmick (MSL quote), USA
<2007-02-06 00:00>
I am not a cookbook collector, however I eagerly anticipated Giada's first cookbook after being an avid viewer of her television show and watching her superb special on Italy. Upon viewing the book I purchased it immediately and proceeded to the store to buy some ingredients for Sunday dinner. This is the cookbook that will revive the cook who is getting bored with old receipes. Some dishes in the book are indeed old receipes, but Giada uses fresh ingredients and recreates favorites in a new manner.
I think I love the creativity featured here more than anything else. And even those who may live in the most backward areas of the country will be able to find the ingredients used here. Regardless of what type of Italian fare interests you, it will be found inside of the pages of this fabulous book. Congrats Giada on a masterpiece.
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