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Saveur Cooks Authentic Italian: Savoring the Recipes and Traditions of the World's Favorite Cuisine

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This is a wonderful reference book for anyone interested in traditional Italian cuisine. Saveur magazine captures the best of Italian food, by taking you into real Italian kitchens, both personal and professional to sample over 120 recipes made in the true Italian manner.

As well as stunning photographs of every dish, there are little sidebars of information on Italian history, regional differences, particulars about a recipes ingredients, and much more on almost every page. Even if you were someone who didn't like to cook, I think you'd find this book an interesting read. For anyone with a passion for good food however, particularly tradional Italian cuisine, this book will definitely be on your shelf of favorites.

I have tried many recipes from this book, and every one has gotten rave reviews from family and friends alike. I even made homemade trofie (Trofie al Pesto)for the first time after being inspired to attempt it when I came across the instructions in this book, and it was every bit as good as the dish I had sampled in Liguria many years ago.

Definitely a book I would encourage anyone with a love of Italian food to buy!

I have lots of cookbooks, but this leaves them all on the shelves. This book sits on my counter, ready to be opened and used. I love the recipes, they are simple, capture the true essence of Italian cooking in all its diversity. If I were to have one single cookbook for Italian this would be the one.

All of the Saveur cookbooks are beyond just good cookbooks. I have all of them and I would hate to part with any of them. They all have a vast collection of basic and/or not so basic recipes that you'd imagine any type of person cooking, from a peasant to a pro at an expensive restaurant. Each recipe has a picture, which I personally really like, and side notes explaining something more about the recipe.
Excellent cookbooks, whether you're considering the Italian, French or American one, all are highly recommended.

If you are looking for modern Italian food, exclusively southern Italian food, or Italian-American food, this book is not for you. If you want authentic, simple dishes, this is an excellent resource. The recipes are very reliable. One of my favorite Italian cookbooks. Highly recommended.

What a beautiful cookbook - the recipes are not difficult to prepare and the colorful pages make you want to fly immediately to Italy. The Osso Bucco is one of the best I have ever had or made. I am trying the Risotto Alla Milanese tonight and have heard it was great. This is a great book for cooks who seek a flair with their meals.

Saveur has run recipes from Italian cities and Italian chefs in their magazine over the years. This cookbook is a compilation of those articles. This is in no way a "knock" on this book. It actually contains the interesting parts of the stories told relating to many of the dishes. Many of the recipes are very traditional and not very "Italian American". I feel that this is a good thing because it will take the cook closer to Italy and the food served there.

I can't wait to cook from this book. The pictures are gorgeous, the recipes seem simple enough. Like real, authentic, Italian cooking; not overly complicated, showy, forced food.

I am very happy with the service that I received and the quick response from TSC books , my first shipment may have been lost or stolen and TSC handled the problem immediately , I would recommend them and the quality of the product was fine . I very much thank them for their good service....

This is a great book for some real old school recipe. It is a very good find for you Italian chefs out there.