Customer Reviews

From Biba's Italian Kitchen

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Biba Caggiano has written 6 books and hosted a GREAT show on the Learning Channel..Her food is simple but done in such an effortless way that the recipies are always perfect..I have never cooked from a book that recipe after recipe is consistantly perfect! Bravo to Biba...The P.B.S. stations should have her as a Chef if they knew what was good for them..She puts the other Italian Chefs way behind..She is truly a GENIUS!

I love this book. Biba's recipes are easy to follow and turn out beautifully. The Shells with shrimp and artichoke hearts is fantastic. Biba's cookbooks are the only Italian cookbooks I use regularly anymore.

Fantastic recipe book! It has become my bible for italian cooking. Many recipes have become staples in my daily cooking. I also remember dining in her restaurant as one of my favorite all-time meals.

Even though I live in the country...I am Italian born and I miss the wonderful, simple cooking of my homeland. Most ingredients are close at hand.(even in Alabama!) But with the guidance of Biba, Italy is just a page away. I was sent tapes of her show on a regular basis and I have every one of her books. Her cookbooks are a tool that every Italian cook should have nearby.It is a shame that TLC stopped airing cooking shows because she was so good at teaching. I dream of the day that I can go to California to meet her and sit at her restaurant. Biba if you can hear me, you are loved all over the world.

From Biba's table to yours...this excellent, uncomplicated book features dozens of formulas for easy-to-prepare soups, pastas, antipastis, gnocchi, seafood, meat and poultry dishes, vegetables, pizzas and desserts.

After sampling many recipes, Biba's meat dishes were the intial attraction for me. (The osso bucco was sublime.)

However, since my husband and I have become vegetarians, I've turned to Biba's soup, salad and vegetable recipes and have found her strengths to be evenly disbursed, though I wish there were more vegetable and salad recipes included. The soups are hugely satisfying, but fairly simple to make.

This is one of my non-vegetarian books I still turn to a on a regular basis.

How I missed this book when it first came out,I'll never know,but I am thrilled to finally get it. The eggplant polpette and the lamb chops with red pepper sauce are so great! Can't wait to make more from this exciting book.

i would rate the condition of this used bood as good not very good but overall it has all the pages i needed. biba cooking is great and now that some of the ingredients are mainstream it is fantastic - had the same book 10 years ago and had the worst time seeking pancetta. all her recipes are simple and easy and totally delicious.

I adore this book, which I bought back when Biba first published it (at a book signing of hers!). Every recipe I've made from it is simply wonderful. I made the Rice and Spinach soup tonight, and it is so easy and so tasty. I keep going back to this cookbook when I want to make great Italian food from reliable recipes. In looking this title up so I could post a review, I noticed that Biba has several other titles--can't wait to read them.

Recipes are easy to follow and delicious.

Wonderful Cookbook. There is a Spinach Rissoto that is out of this world. A must try.