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Big Night: A Novel with Recipes

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Purchased the book because of the promise of each chapter beginning with a recipe for one of the dishes from the movie. While technically this was true, I was disappointed in the recipes included in the book. Was expecting to have the recipes from the Big Feast - especially a recipe for the famous Timpano. It was glaringly missing as were recipes for just about all of the dishes served at the Big Night. On the plus side, since a book needs "a lot more words" than the visuals of a movie, there was much description of what was occuring while preparing the meal. Still, that did not make up for the lack of the recipes.

"Big Night" was a wonderful movie. This book, purporting to be a novelization, is about as compelling as Cliff Notes. Moreover, it's promoted as having recipes from the film. Yeah. It includes a recipe for the scrambled eggs they cooked the next morning, but where's the recipe we really want, for the Timpano?

I have not read the book, however; the Timpano is in a cookbook by Tucci and Tropiano among others titled "Cucina & Famigila"

I was expecting more in the way of recipes with this book. Many of the wonderful dishes from the "big night" dinner were not in the book, including the spectacular Timpano. That was a disappointment. I would not recommend purchasing the book if you want to find recipes for the items in the movie dinner.