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ISBN: 0936184582

ISBN13: 9780936184586

Italian Classics (The Best Recipe Series)

(Part of the The Best Recipe Series)

By Vicki Lansky

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Favorite Italian dishes updated for the home cook. What's the best way to prevent ricotta cheesecake from becoming watery? Is there a trick for coaxing more flavor from basil when making pesto? Does bread flour self-raising flour make better pizza dough? In an exhaustive effort to answer these questions and hundreds more, the editors of "Cook's Illustrated" magazine have conducted hundreds of kitchen tests. The result is "Italian Classics," a 496-page award-winning cookbook packed with recipes, food tastings, equipment testings, and cooking tips straight from the Cook's Illustrated test kitchen. Designed with the home cook in mind, this collection of classic Italian recipes has been stripped to the bone and then reworked, updated, and improved so that each recipe is as close to foolproof as we can make it. More than 300 recipes cover the wide range of Italian home cooking, from Tuscan pork roast, and risotto, to tomato and bread soup, vegetable lasagne, and strawberries with balsamic vinegar. Learn to cook less well-known regional recipes such as steak Fiorentina, baked peaches stuffed with amaretti, and stracotto, an Italian pot roast. "Italian Classics" also contains more than 225 illustrations that will show you techniques such as how to peel garlic cloves quickly, how to roll out pasta dough, and how to assemble tiramisu. The book also includes dozens of no-nonsense equipment ratings and taste tests of supermarket ingredients. Find out why American pastas are every bit as good as Italian brands, which grater makes quick work of Parmesan cheese, and which electronic scale is our "best buy." You will also learn which type of pork chop - centre-cut or rib - is best for cooking and what the difference is between pancetta and bacon. This description may be from another edition of this product.

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0936184582

ISBN13:9780936184586

Release Date:January 1

Publisher:Cook's Illustrated

Length:481 Pages

Weight:3.32 lbs.

Dimensions:1.4" x 8.6" x 11.1"

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Rated 5 stars
Excellent Italian reference for American cooks

By Thriftbooks.com User, May 28, 2006

A passionate home cook that has been honing her cooking skills for the last 25 years, concentrating on Italian cooking for the last 10 years, writes this review. My favorite cookbooks are "The Professional Chef" by the Culinary Institute and "Culinary Artistry". With more than 500 cookbooks in my collection I am usually disappointed in my recent cookbook acquisitions. I am also very tough on Italian cookbooks in particular...

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Rated 5 stars
Better than average reference for Italian dishes.

By Thriftbooks.com User, September 17, 2005

'Italian Classics' is a 'Cooks Illustrated' treatment of well known Italian recipes. I have reviewed a number of similar 'Cooks Illustrated' books and a fabulous number of Italian cookbooks, and I believe that this volume is both better than the average 'Cooks Illustrated' volume AND better than the average Italian cookbook. Part of the value of this book is not due to the efforts of the 'Cooks Illustrated' staff, it is due...

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Rated 5 stars
Excellent reference book on Italian Cooking

By Thriftbooks.com User, May 18, 2005

Would you like to learn all the tips and tricks about Italian Cooking? How about learning what is the best perfoming spaguetti brand, or different types of eggplant and how to work with it? Best garlic crusher, best pans, best everything - look no further: this is the book to get all the information you need. The guys at Cooking Illustrated did an outstanding job researching for this book, I was very pleased and impressed...

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Rated 5 stars
Best Practical Italian Cookbook I've ever used.

By Thriftbooks.com User, October 14, 2003

This cookbook is by far the best Italian Cookbook I have ever used. While many Italian cookbooks require ingrediants that are both expensive and hard to find, Italian Classics' recipes are intended to be made with ingrediants that are easy to find in an American grocery store. The recipes, however, don't sacrifice flavor at all. Every recipe that I have cooked, without exception, has been excellent. I was so surprised by the...

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Rated 5 stars
Best of the Best

By Thriftbooks.com User, December 19, 2002

The Best Recipe series have outdone themselves. This is the best one yet.(I am partial to cooking american-italian food at home). This illustrates great recipes that are tasty and user friendly. I especially love the risotto cakes. This book goes beyound recipes and teaches one about techniques and what to do or not to do. THIS IS A GREAT LAST MINUTE GIFT FOR THE NOVICE CHEF TO THE AVID COOK FOR THE HOLIDAYS OR ANY OCCASION...

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