From: asathaye@pns.ece.cmu.edu (Archana Sathaye)
Subject: Re: Italian Cookery Book
Organization: Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1992 14:35:36 GMT


Hi,

I would like to thank everybody who sent me their recommendation
for an Italian cookbook. As promised I aam posting a compiled list
of the responses.

-Archana

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From: stiv@stat0.rice.edu (david n stivers)
Organization: Dept. of Statistics, Rice University


I like "The New Romagnoli's Table", by Romagnoli, of course.

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david n stivers stiv@rice.edu

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From: ad527@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Martin J. Drabik)

>Can anyone recommend a "good" Italian Cookbook? Please e-mail and

Without a doubt: _The Classic Italian Cookbook_ by Marcella Hazan.  I don't
know the publisher and year offhand.  You can get it in the small paperback
size for $5.95.

Marcella covers Italian meals course by course, and the recipes are really
not very complicated, so it makes a good beginner's book for the cuisine.
She gets a bit righteous and might have you believe that you can't get even the
proper water in the USA, but she is describing how it is done in Italy, on
the other hand.  She also offers menu pairings for every dish.  Detailed
instructions for pasta making, also.  

Marcella's done two others, at least: _More Classic Italian Cooking_ (I 
think) and _Marcella's Italian Kitchen_.  I've seen the latter, and it is
of equal interest and quality.


Martin J. Drabik
mdrabik@bach.bio.ri.ccf.org
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From: BHULSE@american.edu
Organization: The American University


Archana,

Marcella Hazan's Classic Italian Cooking and More Classic Italian Cooking are
the two best Italian cookbooks I've seen. I'd recommend them highly. They are
published by Knopf and are in print.

Another favorite is Carlo Middione's The Food of Southern Italy (Morrow),
though this is a bit more specialized. Definitely start with Hazan's books.

Bruce Hulse
bhulse@american.edu
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From: hartley@centerline.com (Timm Hartley)
Organization: CenterLine Software

Catherine Cremaldi's Trio Cookbook is excellent. She and her father own a
little ravioli shop in my neighborhood, Boston's Italian North End. All of
the recipes are easy to follow and she offers a little bit of history at
the beginning of every chapter. She also uses a lot of my favorite
ingredient: GARLIC! 

Unfortunately, I don't have the publisher's name with me, I'll email it
tommorrow.

       Timm Hartley I Production Assistant
CenterLine Software I hartley@centerline.com
      10 Fawcett St I "Back off man! Don't 
Cambridge, MA 02138 I make me use this!!"
                         -Ren Hoek-
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From: MPRK@db1.cc.rochester.edu

Marcella Hazan has three excellend cookbooks - I think they are called
Italian Cooking, More Italian Cooking, and one other.
Also, there is a marvelous book by Carol Field: Italian Baking

These are the top 4, and really all you'll need. There are lots of other
good ones (I really enjoy reading "They call it Macaroni) but I just
can't remember the exact names of the authors or the titles.
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Organization: Stakeholder Relations, NCR Corp in Dayton,OH
From: emolinar@stake.daytonoh.ncr.com


        Good Italian cookbooks, judgement based on 3+ years of
        living in the land of figs & wine:

        Anything my Marcella Hazan.  Check out her husband on Italian
        wines.

        Mediterranean Harvest.  Really all of the Med, but one of my
        standard resources in the kitchen.  Veggie, to boot!

        Regional Italian Cooking, by Ada Boni.  Pictures excellent,
        recipes authentic.  The absolute only resource for EXTREMELY
        local recipes, including Cozze e Riso, from Bari.

        I have several, but these come to mind so quickly:  they
        must be among the best I have, it that's so!

        Elizabeth


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From: vac@grumpy.cray.com (Ginnie Carriera)
Organization: Cray Research, Inc.


 know this sounds crazy, but being Italian I have found that
a lot of cookbooks tell you how to cook the American/Italian
way.  This does not do for a dinner party with all guests either
being from Italy or of Italian parents.  So, I have found two 
books which are totally different from each other but both are
pretty authentic. One being more southern Italian and one being
more northern Italian.  The Northern Italian one is titled
Italy, A Culinary Journey.  The Southern one is "Eat This,
It'll Make You Feel Better" by Dom Delouise (believe
it or not).  With minor changes here and there, I'd say Dom's
book is more authentic, more like my grandmother and parents
cooked, more like we still cook today in our household.  I 
don't know who wrote the other one, but it is a beautiful
cookbook, truly a culinary journey.  Dom's will cost about $13
while the other is around $50 I believe.  Try your local library
and a handy, dandy copier for the more expensive one. 

Ginny Carriera
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From: dlucy@sandr.COM (Douglas Lucy)

In article <1992Aug18.201634.21866@fs7.ece.cmu.edu> you write:

>Can anyone recommend a "good" Italian Cookbook? Please e-mail and
>if I get enough responses, I will post the compiled list
>(of course with credit to the original posters...).

My favorite is "The Great italian Cookbook", compiled by the Italian
Academy of Cookery, published by International Culinary Society,
distributed by Crown Publishers.

368 pages, 280+ color photos, Italian names, seperate English and
Italian indices, glossary, wines described and dived by region,
comprehensive discussion of cheeses. Yum!

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[ W. Douglas Lucy, VP Technical Services, S&R Software, Inc           ]
[ Internet: dlucy@sandr.COM                                           ]
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From: mwoo@pyrnova.mis.pyramid.com (Margaret Woo)
Organization: Pyramid Technology Corp., Mountain View, CA


Marcella Hazan's cookbooks are exceptional.

Margaret

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