The Tuscan Sun Cookbook: Recipes from Our Italian Kitchen

The book is excellent, but this book is currently being used by a cookbook club of 6 women, each picking a different recipe and making them to share at a monthly get together over a 3 month time. That is 18 total recipes made out of the book. The ladys are excellent cooks, one a professional chef. Several of the 18 recipes duplicated had to be 'doctored' to come out as they should. Temperature, time, ingredient changes were needed. The consensus is that when these recipes were collected, the folks they got them from left out a few details. So, if you get this book, be prepared to have something not seem to work out like they should, and hopefully you will catch the problems before you either pull out something undercooked, overdone, a sugar rush, or bland as a saltless Saltine. I think the Tuscani natives did not want worldwide distribution of their family secrets.