Mangiamo! Let's Eat: The Companion Cookbook to Nick Stellino's Family Kitchen [Spiral-bound]

Nick Stellino (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 2004

Our past meets the present around the dinner table...

Italian chef Nick Stellino invites you to savor the pleasures of the kitchen and the family table. He shares his love of family and good food, with innovative yet easy-to-prepare culinary creations that evoke the traditions of his native Sicily.

The dishes are elegant yet quickly prepared, using affordable ingredients that can be found at most supermarkets. Nick also shares useful tips for preparation and presentation, along with warm personal stories that recall the family kitchen of his childhood.

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About the Author

Nick Stellino grew up in Palermo, on the island of Sicily, and came to the United States in 1975. In 1991, he decided to leave his career as a Wall Street stockbroker in order to follow his dream of becoming a chef. He started his culinary career as a dishwasher. Over time, he apprenticed with the best Italian chefs in America. "I was in heaven at the restaurant," says Nick. "But I wanted to share my enthusiasm for Italian cooking with more people, I decided a cooking show was the answer." Employing the energy and dedication that had taken him from Palermo to Wall Street, Nick began calling production companies. His efforts culminated in the highly successful series, Cucina Amore, Nick Stellino's Family Kitchen and the PBS specials, Nick Stellino's Dinner Party and Nick Stellino: Food, Love & Family. Nick lives in Los Angeles with his wife Nanci.

Product Details

• Spiral-bound: 64 pages
• Publisher: KCTS Television (March 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0974028614
• ISBN-13: 978-0974028613
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 0.6 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,570,942 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars At Home with Italian Food, August 9, 2005

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Gordo "The Saint" (Chicago, Ill) - See all my reviews

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Probbly the best of his books, Nick has finally come down into the kitchen we all have and offers rememberances of his past in both the recipes and stories. While there is a slight feeling of repetition in some of the cooking, most of the instructions are to the point and the results will be well received. Just remember Nick's own rule: make the recipe your own - don't be afraid to substitute if you don't have a specific item.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Nick is the BEST!, August 27, 2007

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Louise Peddell (Matawan, NJ) - See all my reviews

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Every recipe is fantastic, relatively simple and full of flavor. I have a lot of his books but I LOVE this little one as I have seen most of these recipes cooked on his TV show. This is a MUST HAVE!!!

3.0 out of 5 stars Too Short, March 14, 2010

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Frenna "Magicdog" (Las Vegas, NV) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Mangiamo! Let's Eat: The Companion Cookbook to Nick Stellino's Family Kitchen (Spiral-bound)

I just received this cookbook (I was hoping to complete my collection of Nick Stellino's cookbooks as I've enjoyed his recipes) and was a bit disappointed. Not in the recipes, but by the fact that the book is a bit short and the fact that these recipes are available for free on Nick Stellino's own website.

The Chicken Gianni was indeed quite good, and the Easy Chocolate Mousse was like a slice of choco-heaven, but I came away from my many perusals of the book wishing there was more to it all! I must agree with another poster who mentioned it was a bit too centered on family and anecdotes. I know it's a part of Stellino's charm and I loved the small anecdotes that fit easily into the margin of a recipe, but this book had several pages devoted to stories prior to the recipes!

One of the stories didn't even give a satisfactory conclusion! One anecdote mentions how Nick and his wife Nanci decided to take a chance and get financial backing for their own production company/TV show. The story continues as Nick mentions having chosen to turn down a chef position at an exclusive restaurant to pursue the project. After about 2 years of trying they apparently failed based on mentions of running out of money and no deals. We know it must have worked out somewhere because Nick has been on PBS on and off for about 15 years (unless it was to do a show for someone like Food Network, the passage doesn't make this clear) and I felt like I don't have the full story or how this related to the cookbook. It sounded like it would have been better suited to an autobiography not a cookbook.

At least I didn't pay the hundreds of dollars that other sellers are asking for their copies of the book (why, I have no idea!). Trust me his other cookbooks are much beter and won't disappoint.