Books : The Silver Spoon

Rating: - A real Italian Cookbook
This is the english version of classic Italian cookbook. It's great, well written and extremly useful. Italians use this book too ! it's not the usual glamour book about italian food...this is for real

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Rating: - the silver spoon
This book is fantastic for anybobody who want to cook genuine Italian food.So please that it finally got translated !If you love italian food this is the BEST concise book out there ( my husband an ex chef who by the way is Italian!highly recommend it!)

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Rating: - Excellent
I love the recipes in this book. Delicious and super. I got it with Simple and Simply Delicious by Sylvie Rocher (French recipes). Both books are excellent and highly recommended.

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Rating: - A classic to treasure
I oriiginally bought a copy of this for my niece to share with her my love of Italian food and cooking. I have had to buy another for myself. It is a veritable encyclopedia covering equipment and basic recipes as well the more unusual and sophisticated. Yet everything is explained simply, so can be used by both a beginner and an expert. Like Delia Smith but Italian. This isn't a book that you will leave on the coffee table and make an occassional dish from. Beware this one will end up dog-eared and your children will want to take it with them when they leave home!

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Rating: - The essential guide to Italian cookery
"The Silver Spoon" offers, in over 1200 pages, the ultimate guide to Italian cookery. It is a massive, very heavy book. It is designed to be used, to be explored, to enthuse, to instruct, but overall, to feed your imagination, your palette, your body. And yet it's not a book to leave around casually on the kitchen table … and certainly not the coffee table. For the serious cook, this is a must have. It's a book to be read and used, a book which will be referred to for decades, a book you will pass on to your children.

It begins with the instruction that 'eating is a serious matter'. Cooking is an art form as well as a pleasure. First published in 1950, this cook book has stood the test of time. There are few glossy pictures. The meat of the volume is its thousands of recipes. Simple. Complex. There is primary advice on cooking techniques and terms, what to use, how to use it. You get instruction on sauces and marinades, all the different courses, meat, fish, vegetables, pasta. An absolutely comprehensive guide. The day you buy it you begin wondering how you've lived your life without it.

The recipes are clearly described. No frills, no gloss. Straightforward description of how to cook each dish, how to get the best out of your ingredients, how to enjoy food and feeding others. The layout is simple, accessible, the recipes easy to find, easy to follow. But it's a vast work. You really need to sit and read it, leaf through it, highlight new ideas you'd like to try, refer to the classics and standards which you'll produce again and again.

An exciting, stimulating essential, the ultimate guide to Italian cooking, and a book which, once you own a copy will not only become indispensable, it's a book which will make you evangelical as you try to convince friends and family that they too must own a copy. Give this to someone as a present - they will never stop thanking you.