The Top One Hundred Italian Rice Dishes [Paperback]

Diane Seed (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 1, 2004

Best-selling cookbook author and international Italian cuisine authority Diane Seed is back with another collection of tantalizing Italian specialties. Known for her books on pasta and Italian food, Diane now presents a charmingly illustrated volume filled with regional rice dishes from Lombardia to Venice to Mantova. Chapters include vegetable, fish, meat and poultry, and special occasion dishes, and feature over 50 risotto recipes, as well as baked rice offerings. The definitive work on mastering Italian rice dishes, this book is a must for any home chef or Italian food lover.

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About the Author

DIANE SEED, internationally renowned cookbook writer, lives in Rome, Italy, where she runs a cooking school. She is the author of the best-selling Top One Hundred Pasta Sauces and Diane Seed's Rome for All Seasons.

Product Details

• Paperback: 144 pages
• Publisher: Ten Speed Press (March 1, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1580082807
• ISBN-13: 978-1580082808
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 6.5 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.7 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,567,073 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I love this lady's books on Italian cooking!, March 30, 2001

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This review is from: The Top One Hundred Italian Rice Dishes (Paperback)

I have The Top 100 Pasta Sauces and I think that it is a very useful book. We pull it off the shelf to make last-minute dinners from any vegetables lurking in the crisper and get a nutritious, elegant dinner in no time.

Now Diane Seed has written the Top 100 Italian Rice Dishes and I could NOT wait to get this. One of us at home had to stop eating wheat, which mean pasta, other than from special grains, was out. So we eat rice, which anyway I personally prefer.

Risottos are really wonderful but there is more than just risotto in this book. There are soups, cassaroles, molded rice rings and more. Some dishes are simple, some are quite complicated and worthy of a dinner party.

My favorites so far are the Rice and Eggplant Palermo Style, Lemon Risotto, Spinach Risotto and Pumpkin Risotto. These are healthy, vitamin filled and interesting dishes that are easy to digest. There are also lovely meat dishes, including a Sicilian Christmas rice platter that includes meatballs, sausage and chicken.

Many of the recipes specify Arborio rice. This is a flat grained, medium rice that cooks up rather like pasta (a bit al dente.) It can be expensive and hard to find everywhere in the US, so you might have to substitute medium grain Spanish rice, which is not the same. I sometimes substitute Thai rice in defiance of the recipe and it works, although the result is a bit different. The authentic Italian Arborio comes out moist and even a bit soupy at times. So if you can get Arborio rice, fine, if not, wing it and it still tastes wonderful.