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Fine Art of Italian Cooking [Hardcover]

Giuliano Bugialli (Author)
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February 24, 1990
The Fine Art of Italian Cooking is considered the definitive cookbook on Italian cuisine, and Giuliano Bugialli is one of the foremost teachers of that country's revered cooking techniques. Now, this incomparable cookbook has been updated, expanded, and beautifully redesigned. With over 300 recipes, including 30 specially researched for this edition, and 75 detailed easy-to-follow line drawings, this complete revision has made the classic cookbook even better.

Bugialli focuses on the extraordinary. range of Tuscan cooking and includes popular recipes from the other regions of Italy The book's extensive chapters cover every kind of pasta -- fresh, dried, stuffed -- breads, sauces, antipasti, meat and fish, poultry, risotti, vegetables, and the wonderful range of Italian desserts -- from simple poached fruit to magnificent filled pastries and tortes. Among the dishes are: risotto with spinach; ossobuco with peas; Florentine style polenta with meat sauce; Italian spongecake.

Bugialli has refined and corrected the entire text. The ingredients lists, instructions and cooking times for all the recipes have been improved and clarified, wine lists have been revised, and notes on such staples as olive oil, dried Italian herbs, and cheeses have been updated to reflect the public's increased knowledge of and interest in Italian cuisine.

In its elegant modernized format, loaded with expert advice accumulated in Bugialli's nearly twenty years of teaching and cooking experience, the revised Fine Art of Italian Cooking will continue to bring the great Italian culinary tradition to the American table.


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The Fine Art of Italian Cooking is considered the definitive cookbook on Italian cuisine, and Giuliano Bugialli is one of the foremost teachers of that country's revered cooking techniques. Now, this incomparable cookbook has been updated, expanded, and beautifully redesigned. With over 300 recipes, including 30 specially researched for this edition, and 75 detailed easy-to-follow line drawings, this complete revision has made the classic cookbook even better.

Bugialli focuses on the extraordinary. range of Tuscan cooking and includes popular recipes from the other regions of Italy The book's extensive chapters cover every kind of pasta -- fresh, dried, stuffed -- breads, sauces, antipasti, meat and fish, poultry, risotti, vegetables, and the wonderful range of Italian desserts -- from simple poached fruit to magnificent filled pastries and tortes. Among the dishes are: risotto with spinach; ossobuco with peas; Florentine style polenta with meat sauce; Italian spongecake.

Bugialli has refined and corrected the entire text. The ingredients lists, instructions and cooking times for all the recipes have been improved and clarified, wine lists have been revised, and notes on such staples as olive oil, dried Italian herbs, and cheeses have been updated to reflect the public's increased knowledge of and interest in Italian cuisine.

In its elegant modernized format, loaded with expert advice accumulated in Bugialli's nearly twenty years of teaching and cooking experience, the revised Fine Art of Italian Cooking will continue to bring the great Italian culinary tradition to the American table.

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 three other cookbooks, the Tastemaker Award winners Giuliano Bugialli's Classic Techniques of Italian Cooking and Giuliano Bugialli's Foods of Italy, and the recent Bugialli on Pasta.

Product Details

  • Hardcover: 688 pages
  • Publisher: Clarkson Potter; Expanded edition (February 24, 1990)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 081291838X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0812918380
  • Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.5 x 1.7 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 2.6 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #291,004 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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37 of 38 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A Classic Italian (Florentine) Cookbook, March 13, 2000
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David Wihowski (Milwaukee, WI USA) - See all my reviews
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My main quibble with this book is it's title. It isn't really a book about "Italian" cuisine as a whole, but about Florentine cuisine with a generous salute to cooking from other regions and cities. A solid majority of the recipes and comments are, self-admittedly, about Florentine cuisine. Having said that, this is still an excellent book brimming with recipes. As with most of Bugialli's books the recipes occasionally require difficult to find ingredients (potato starch, bitter almonds, etc.) usually without suggesting an acceptable compromise for US cooks. On the whole, however, the recipes are generally very accessible to US cooks. And, so far, every one I've tried has been a success. It's not a book for neophyte cooks, as there are times when certain techniques are assumed.

There are no full color photos as in some of Mr. Bugialli's other books. THERE ARE many simple, basic Florentine and Italian recipes that help you understand that much Italian cooking is based on simplicity, good ingredients, wonderful flavors, and a certain refinement, elegance and finesse that is the essence of Italian cooking.

I personally find all the information from the Florentine perspective very interesting. I plan on doing several dinner parties based on purely Florentine recipes, just because this book has inspired me to do so.

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars For the intermediate cook, February 12, 2003
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While not exactly for the beginner, this book will allow anyone with some basic cooking skills to create absolutely marvelous dishes. Be forewarned that many of these recipes take quite a bit of time. You might be better off starting with simpler recipes (such as risotto or sformati) and working up to a more complex one, like the stuffed whole boned chicken.
I have made many of the recipes in this book over the last several years. It has just the right amount of detail on technique--I refer to it from time to time to clarify techniques that are missing in other cookbooks. I cannot imagine a kitchen library without it.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars The best, December 10, 2007
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Simply put, this book is pretty much my cooking bible. I have made many of the recipes, and they have all been astoundingly fabulous. Do yourself a favor, and get yourself a copy immediately, and be sure to try some of the recipes that call for home made fresh pasta (the duck lasagna in particular). They can take a while, but are well worth the time and effort.
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Visitors who spend a long time in Italy, especially those who come to know the language, often tell me that what they are most struck by is the uninterrupted historical continuity of Italian life and customs. Read the first page
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bagno maria, salsa bianca, pasta board, cotton dishtowel, panna montata, pane toscano, compressed fresh yeast, crockery bowl, ounces raisins, dissolved yeast, second rising, compressed yeast, flameproof casserole
Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Italian Arborio, Parmigiano Salt, Roman Empire, Italian Coarse-grained, Parmigiano Freshly
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