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Mangiamo! Let's Eat: The Companion Cookbook to Nick Stellino's Family Kitchen

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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.

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!!!

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.

I love his other books but this one was a disappointment. Not a lot of good recipes. More about his family than recipes.