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Cookbooks Cooking Cooking Education & Reference European History Holiday Cooking Italian ReferenceI stumbled into this at a thrift shop for a buck, and bought it based on the publisher. Phaidon does terrific books, so I dropped it in my cart without really looking at it, other than to see it's Italian. I have kidney disease and am searching for dishes that can be enjoyed on an extremely restrictive (low sodium and as little protein and phosphorous & potassium as possible) diet, so I've been amassing cookbooks, looking...
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I own over three hundred cookbooks so it's rare for me to get excited over a new one, but The Silver Spoon is different. This is by far the best cookbook released in the English language in the past ten years. One has to wonder why it took so long for an English-language version to be sold in North America. This cookbook has almost everything a serious home cook could want. Most recipes are simple to prepare and turn out...
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First off, this book is huge. This great cookbook from Phaidon Press is filled with great color photos and is smartly organized. They had great source material to work with, but it is well edited. Rather than use step-by-step processes, each recipe is a brief paragraph on how to prepare it. Some of the ingrediants seem as if they might be hard to come by, but the overwhelming majority of the 2,000+ recipes use readily...
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_The Silver Spoon_ was originally published in Italy in 1950 by the Italian architectural and design magazine _Domus_. (Italian Title "Il Cucchiaio d'argento." The eighth edition came out in 1997.)The publishers at Phaidon, the British publishing house, have done a remarkable job of translating and designing _The Silver Spoon for American and British cooks. The cookbook combines both traditional Italian recipes, and more contemporary...
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