The Fine Art of Italian Cooking: The Classic Cookbook, Updated & Expanded [Hardcover]

Giuliano Bugialli (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 1, 2005

This is the definitive cookbook on Italian cuisine. The author is one of the foremost teachers of Italy's revered cooking techniques with more than 20 years of teaching and cooking experience. Giuliano Bugialli's incomparable cookbook has been updated, expanded and beautifully redesigned, including:

• Over 300 recipes from Tuscany and other regions of Italy
• Suggested dinner menus and wine recommendations
• Chapters on pasta, breads, sauces, antipasti, meat and fish, poultry, risotto, vegetables, and desserts
• Improved ingredient lists, revised wine lists, updated notes on olive oil, Italian herbs, and cheeses
• 75 detailed, easy-to-follow line drawings

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This is the definitive cookbook on Italian cuisine. The author is one of the foremost teachers of Italy's revered cooking techniques with more than 20 years of teaching and cooking experience. Giuliano Bugialli's incomparable cookbook has been updated, expanded and beautifully redesigned, including:

• Over 300 recipes from Tuscany and other regions of Italy
• Suggested dinner menus and wine recommendations
• Chapters on pasta, breads, sauces, antipasti, meat and fish, poultry, risotto, vegetables, and desserts
• Improved ingredient lists, revised wine lists, updated notes on olive oil, Italian herbs, and cheeses
• 75 detailed, easy-to-follow line drawings

About the Author

Giuliano Bugialli is an established authority on the traditions and techniques of Italian cooking and is the most popular Italian cooking teacher and demonstrator in the United States. He is the author of seven other popular Italian cookbooks.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 688 pages
• Publisher: Gramercy; Exp Upd edition (February 1, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0517224321
• ISBN-13: 978-0517224328
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.5 x 1.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #735,650 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Highly Recommended, August 4, 2009

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Kenneth E. Greene - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Fine Art of Italian Cooking: The Classic Cookbook, Updated & Expanded (Hardcover)

Quite simply, this book has done more to improve my cooking than any other I can readily call to mind. I would suggest however, that while the beginner cook will derive significant benefit from this book, it may resonate most with those of an intermediate skill level. The author convincingly and clearly shares historical perspective on techniques as well as the recipes themselves. The approach emphasizes simplicity and relies on centuries of tradition, learning, and innovation within the various styles of Italian cuisine. I have tried about ten recipes from the book and all have been winners, yet none were particularly time-consuming, difficult to prepare or relied too heavily on exotic ingredients. If you want to understand more about Italian cooking, or just cooking in general, this is a truly great book to have.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This is the book I learned to make pasta from, and am cooking from again., November 17, 2010

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Jay (Pittsburgh PA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Fine Art of Italian Cooking: The Classic Cookbook, Updated & Expanded (Hardcover)

Although I had read and cooked my way through much of Marcella Hazan's CLASSIC ITALIAN COOKBOOK when I first encountered this (1980), Giuliano Bugialli's first cookbook, I found Giuliano's method of making pasta much easier than Marcella's. Maybe it's because of the little bit of olive oil. Maybe it's because he uses XL eggs.

Now, in 2010, I find myself cooking from this book once more. I've made a stew, some meat sauces, and I'm going to try the lasagna this weekend. It's a good book. One I really love to cook from (I read most of my cookbooks, but I don't necessarily cook from them). But with Bugialli, it feels essential to cook along with him as I read.

If you really like Italian food, I hope you will read this book and cook along with Giuliano, as I have done and am doing once again.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Bugialli rules !, February 1, 2010

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Bob M. (Mt. Vernon, VA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: The Fine Art of Italian Cooking: The Classic Cookbook, Updated & Expanded (Hardcover)

I consider this the sourcebook for all of Giuliano's cooking. This is the second edition of this book (that I own as well). You can't go wrong with this. He provides more insights than Marcella Hazan whose two volume book is a similar compendium....ahhh, but Giuliano is a Tuscan !