Simply Tuscan: Recipes for a Well-Lived Life

This is my favorite Pino Luongo cookbook, and I have four. I love that the chapters are divided by season and he offers menus for each. I love the photos of the food and I love that he includes children as people who deserve to eat well too. These recipes are great and vary from the quick and easy to the more complex so you get it all. I highly recommend Simply Tuscan!

Simply Tuscan is a wonderful book that captures one of Italy's finest exports -- their food. The Italian lifestyle is defined in their cooking, and in this book that pairs recipe with occassion. The format is organized by season, so you can easily select dishes to compliment the day. The recipes are simple to prepare. The menu combinations are excellent. Simply Tuscan is a wonderful continuation of Luongo's earlier cookbook - A Tuscan in the Kitchen. A Tuscan in the Kitchen: Recipes and Tales from My Home

This book is so beautiful and the recipes are so wonderful! I highly reccommend this book for anyone who loves Tuscany, fine cuisine or just a lesson on culture and history. Great reading and Even Better Cooking!!!

This book is much more than a mere cookbook, as Pino Luongo shares his love of Tuscany in a friendly informal way that I found particularly appealing. The book is divided into the four seasons as Mr. Luongo feels this best reflects nature's lead. The recipes are very easy to follow, containing easy to find ingredients, and he has added a number of menu selections sprinkled through each chapter. Having lived in Italy for 8 years myself, Tuscany was one of my favorite regions, and I thoroughly enjoyed traveling back there with Mr. Luongo in this book. If You love Tuscany and it's food, you'll enjoy this book.

Do NOT be intimidated - I am barely starting to do more than very basic cooking and the cuisine of Tuscany is my favorite. The instructions are clear, I had with me a friend who is a very good cook and this book worked for us both, doesn't talk down to you and it doesn't make you feel like an idiot.Perfect timing, too - start with summer and spring recipes, I find those not only more appropriate but a bit easier.