Angeli Caffe Pizza Pasta Panini (Hardcover)

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"Earthly simplicity," Evan Kleiman calls the certain essential extra that makes the foods of Angeli Caffé in Los Angeles so special. "Angeli food," she writes, "is 'roots food' served in a city where roots are hard to see or find.... It is a cucina reduced to the most basic elements.... Food reduced to basic taste components where nothing is covered up; complexity simply for its own sake is banished."

Chef, restaurant owner, and food writer Evan Kleiman starts Pizza Pasta Panini with a pizza dough recipe that will make enough dough for four eight-inch pizzas. This is intentional. The biggest secret to "successful" pizza, Kleiman reveals, is making the dough frequently (learning through repetition) and always having some on hand, either in the freezer or in the refrigerator. "The more you do it," she writes, "the easier and more natural it becomes--like most things in life."

And what a life. For it includes recipes for pizza, calzone, sfincione (the double-decker pizza of Sicily), panzerotti (which are little calzone fried in oil), focacce, and savory tarts, delectable treats one and all. You'll also find recipes for pastas to match the seasons and their ingredients. There are recipes as well for panini, cicchetti (Venetian antipasti), bruschetta, and tramezzini (an Italian translation of English tea sandwiches). All of it is straightforward and easy to accomplish, particularly the more you do it.

While all these recipes (some 200) are deeply rooted in the Italian rustic tradition, Kleiman doesn't for a moment overlook her immediate whereabouts. This is a Los Angeles cookbook, but one based on truth, not artifice. And that's why Faith Willinger describes the food of Angeli Caffé as "cucina rustica from the provincia California." Pull up a chair, assemble some basic ingredients, then tuck in to deceptively simple food that will reshape your palate, if not your state of mind. --Schuyler Ingle --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Product Description

The chef and owner of Los Angeles's Angeli Caffe+a7 restaurant offers two hundred quick and easy recipes for fresh, simple, delicious pizzas, focaccia, tarts, breads, snacks, and pastas.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 256 pages
• Publisher: William Morrow Cookbooks; 1st edition (May 21, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0688142699
• ISBN-13: 978-0688142698
• Product Dimensions: 10.4 x 8.3 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,497,843 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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19 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars fantastically simple recipes for Italian trattoria cuisine, October 25, 1997

By	"coyej" (Houston TX) - See all my reviews

The restaurant cookbook of Angeli Caffe in Los Angeles conveys the passion and simplicity of its Italian trattoria cuisine with recipes for the important triad of pizza, pasta, and panini as well as complimentary elements of calzone, sfincione, panzerotti, focaccia, cicchetti, bruschetta, and tramezzini. One basic recipe for pizza dough suffices for use in the pizza recipes and emphasizes this simplicity. Recipes are introduced with a short description providing background, significance, and/or tidbits of culinary knowledge. Nothing short of a visit to the restaurant should satisfy you after reading this cookbook!

5.0 out of 5 stars Among the best Pasta cookbooks I have, July 28, 2008

By	cg "gardengirl" (California) - See all my reviews

I love Italian cooking and this cookbook is among the best of the best that I own. Right now, i am making the pasta dish that sits for hours with chopped tomatoes, garlic, basil and s & p. Then I will add chopped fresh mozzarella with the hot pasta...oh my!!!

5.0 out of 5 stars Italian made delicious and easy, March 20, 2000

By	tommy york (ann arbor, michigan) - See all my reviews

As a restauranteur for over 10 years I have read and cooked with hundreds of books. Ms. Kleinman's recipes are simple and delicious. My favorites include the Pizza Salsicce, Pasta Muro Leccese as well as the Polenta and all the basics. Her uncooked Tomato Sauce has become a staple in my home. This is a great book for the Home Chef.