Customer Reviews

Cooking from an Italian Garden

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I have tried out dozens of recipes from this charming book, none have failed. Although the recipes here are all meatless, the book rises above the genre of vegetarian cooking; my carnivor friends have not even noticed the absence of meat. There are, after all, only two kinds of cooking, bad cooking and good cooking, and this book is about good cooking.

A book I constantly turn to for ideas after I've looked in the vegetable bin or my orto in Tuscany to see what is available for dinner. It almost never lets me down. Imaginative, reliable and practical.

I love looking and cooking from this book. The soups are wonderful and have spent endless reading and cooking from this gem!

I'm not sure I'd give this 5 stars (who am I to consider anything to be perfect?). However, Amazon suffers from grade inflation, so I have no choice but to grade on a curve. I'm a food geek and a herbivore who spends too much time thinking about food, and who owns way too many cookbooks. I received this years ago, and it's one of the most used books on my shelf--along with Mark Bittman's "How to Cook Everything," "The Joy of Cooking," and Faith Willinger's "Red White and Greens". This cheap paperback is an under-appreciated gem, and one of the few cookbooks you can actually use in the world you inhabit. It's a steal--get it.

I'm not much of a cook, but I was delighted to receive this book from my friends Paola Scaravelli and Jon Cohen some years ago, and have occasionally turned to the recipes here when all other ideas fail me. It's a fantastic collection of meatless meals and other delights, and will be sure to please vegetarians, health-conscious cooks and anyone who's simply curious. A great book, even for those of us not known for our kitchen expertise.

This book was a real disappointment. I thought I was going to get something akin to "My Calabria" and I got something more like "Joy of Cooking."

I've been a vegetarian for many years and this is one of the first cookbooks I used. The recipes are amazing and authentic Italian. I wish they would reissue this book as I would like to buy a bunch of copies to give as gifts.