Saveur Cooks Authentic Italian

By Saveur Magazine

Book Overview

Continuing the highly acclaimed cookbook series, Saveur Cooks Authentic Italian explores the world's most popular and beloved cuisine. Authentic Italian food is inspired by local traditions and relies on the freshest of ingredients. It's real food--unpretentious and casual--the ultimate in home-cooking. The renowned culinary experts at Saveur go straight to the source with recipes for perfectly prepared pasta and risotto, hearty meat and game, and irresistibly delicious desserts. Each colorful page is an invitation: share a seafood feast with a Venetian fishmonger, take a private lasagna-making lesson in Bologna, or discover the secrets for pesto buono in Genoa. Featuring award-winning writing, hundreds of stunning color photographs, and more than 120 recipes, Saveur Cooks Authentic Italian is a timeless celebration of the world's best-loved cuisine.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811832678
• ISBN13: 9780811832670
• Release Date: August 2001
• Publisher: Chronicle Books (CA)
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 4.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 10.1" x 10.3"

Customer Reviews

If you love Italian, buy this book

I have lots of cookbooks, but this leaves them all on the shelves. This book sits on my counter, ready to be opened and used. I love the recipes, they are simple, capture the true essence of Italian cooking in all its diversity. If I were to have one single cookbook for Italian this would be the one.

Pucker up!

All of the Saveur cookbooks are beyond just good cookbooks. I have all of them and I would hate to part with any of them. They all have a vast collection of basic and/or not so basic recipes that you'd imagine any type of person cooking, from a peasant to a pro at an expensive restaurant. Each recipe has a picture, which I personally really like, and side notes explaining something more about the recipe. Excellent cookbooks, whether you're considering the Italian, French or American one, all are highly recommended.

authentic, simple recipes

If you are looking for modern Italian food, exclusively southern Italian food, or Italian-American food, this book is not for you. If you want authentic, simple dishes, this is an excellent resource. The recipes are very reliable. One of my favorite Italian cookbooks. Highly recommended.

Great Cook Book

What a beautiful cookbook - the recipes are not difficult to prepare and the colorful pages make you want to fly immediately to Italy. The Osso Bucco is one of the best I have ever had or made. I am trying the Risotto Alla Milanese tonight and have heard it was great. This is a great book for cooks who seek a flair with their meals.

The Best Of Italian Cuisine!

This is a wonderful reference book for anyone interested in traditional Italian cuisine. Saveur magazine captures the best of Italian food, by taking you into real Italian kitchens, both personal and professional to sample over 120 recipes made in the true Italian manner.As well as stunning photographs of every dish, there are little sidebars of information on Italian history, regional differences, particulars about a recipes ingredients, and much more on almost every page. Even if you were someone who didn't like to cook, I think you'd find this book an interesting read. For anyone with a passion for good food however, particularly tradional Italian cuisine, this book will definitely be on your shelf of favorites.I have tried many recipes from this book, and every one has gotten rave reviews from family and friends alike. I even made homemade trofie (Trofie al Pesto)for the first time after being inspired to attempt it when I came across the instructions in this book, and it was every bit as good as the dish I had sampled in Liguria many years ago.Definitely a book I would encourage anyone with a love of Italian food to buy!