Italian Classics (Best Recipe)
by Cook's Illustrated Magazine Editors
List Price:
Our Price: $16.97
You Save: $18.03 (52%)
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Buy Used: from $0.56 (click here)
Category: Book
See more book details and other editions
Book Summary Information
Author: Cook's Illustrated Magazine EditorsEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2002-09-15
ISBN: 0936184582
Number of pages: 481
Publisher: America's Test Kitchen
Summary of Italian Classics (Best Recipe)
What's the best way to prevent ricotta cheesecake from becoming watery? Is there a trick for coaxing more flavour from basil when making pesto? Does bread flour self-raising flour make better pizza dough? In an exhaustive effort to answer these questions and hundreds more, the editors of "Cook's Illustrated" magazine have conducted hundreds of kitchen tests. The result is "Italian Classics", a 496-page award-winning cookbook packed with recipes, food tastings, equipment testings, and cooking tips straight from the Cook's test kitchen. Designed with the home cook in mind, this collection of classic Italian recipes has been stripped to the bone and then reworked, updated, and improved so that each recipe is as close to foolproof as we can make it. More than 300 recipes cover the wide range of Italian home cooking, from Tuscan pork roast, and risotto, to tomato and bread soup, vegetable lasagne, and strawberries with balsamic vinegar. Learn to cook less well-known regional recipes such as steak Fiorentina, baked peaches stuffed with amaretti, and stracotto, an Italian pot roast. "Italian Classics" also contains more than 225 illustrations that will show you techniques such as how to peel garlic cloves quickly, how to roll out pasta dough, and how to assemble tiramisu. The book also includes dozens of no-nonsense equipment ratings and taste tests of supermarket ingredients. Find out why American pastas are every bit as good as Italian brands, which grater makes quick work of Parmesan cheese, and which electronic scale is our "best buy". You will also learn which type of pork chop - centre-cut or rib - is best for cooking and what the difference is between pancetta and bacon.The Best Recipe series from Cook's Illustrated magazine goes from strength to strength. With its formula of exhaustively tested recipes paired with heavily illustrated techniques, the series makes it easy for even beginning cooks to produce successful dishes almost every time. For the casual home cook, Italian Classics might be the single best Italian cookbook to own. The book is, in classic Best Recipe fashion, a great big beautiful doorstop of a thing. Even so, it's not crammed with arcana. For most Americans--who in survey after survey say that regional Italian is the cuisine they most enjoy cooking at home--the recipes here will be pretty familiar; the space is devoted not to obscure dishes but to exhaustive treatments of favorites. Pesto, for instance, gets about three pages. You end up with a delicious, perfectly prepared basil paste, and along the way you learn how to bruise herb leaves, you get a treatise on why a garlic press isn't such a bad thing (despite what the professionals say), and finally, you are led into the intriguing territory of nonbasil pestos such as Toasted Nut and Parsley, and Arugula and Ricotta. All the classics are here, from red-checkered-tablecloth dishes like Spaghetti and Meatballs to regional dishes like Ribollita. Throughout, there's a nice balance between authenticity and accessibility. The book doesn't call for wildly obscure ingredients that other cookbook authors so often claim can be readily found at "specialty stores," and there's no snobbishly overwrought preparation--another boon for the home cook. --Claire Dederer
Italian Books
Book Subjects
- Arts & Photography
- Biographies & Memoirs
- Business & Investing
- Children's Books
- Comics & Graphic Novels
- Computers & Internet
- Cooking, Food & Wine
- Entertainment
- Gay & Lesbian
- Health, Mind & Body
- History
- Home & Garden
- Horror
- Law
- Literature & Fiction
- Mystery & Thrillers
- Nonfiction
- Outdoors & Nature
- Parenting & Families
- Professional & Technical
- Reference
- Religion & Spirituality
- Romance
- Science
- Science Fiction & Fantasy
- Sports
- Teens
- Travel
Most talked about in Italian Books
Nick stellino's glorious italian cookingby Nick Stellino
Putnam Adult; Published: 1996-04-02; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $16.13
Price in other shops:
Fresh Ways with Italian Cookingby Sunset Books
Sunset Publishing Corporation; Published: 1992-05; Paperback; Book
Best price: $7.89
Price in other shops:
Italian Vegetarian Cookery Pbby Gavin Paola
Optima; Published: 1991-06-13; Paperback; Book
Ciao Italia Five-Ingredient Favorites: Quick and Delicious Recipes from an Italian Kitchenby Mary Ann Esposito
St. Martin's Press; Published: 2009-09-01; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $8.50
Price in other shops:
Ciao Italia Pronto!: 30-Minute Recipes from an Italian Kitchenby Mary Ann Esposito
St. Martin's Press; Published: 2005-10-01; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $7.43
Price in other shops:
Italia! Italia! A Passion for the Real Food of Italyby Valentina Harris
Sterling*+ Publishing Company; Published: 1999-09-30; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $3.30
Un Amico Italiano: Eat, Pray, Love in Romeby Luca Spaghetti
Penguin (Non-Classics); Published: 2011-04-26; Paperback; Book
Best price: $0.01
Price in other shops:
Italian Food (Penguin handbooks)by Elizabeth David
Penguin; Published: 1964-02-28; Mass Market Paperback; Book
Price in other shops:
A Casa: Seasonal Italian Home Cookingby Anna Del Conte
Harpercollins; Published: 1992-09; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $12.19
Price in other shops:
Bologna Mia: Memories from the Kitchen of Italyby Loretta Paganini
Thomas Dunne Books / St. Martin's Press; Published: 2000-10-15; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $41.25
Similar Books and other products
Here In America's Test Kitchen: All New Recipes, Quick Tips, Equipment Ratings, Food Tastings, and Science Experiments from the Hit Public Television Showby Editors of Cook's Illustrated Magazine
Boston Common Press; Published: 2002-12; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $4.95
Price in other shops:
Soups, Stews & Chilisby Cook's Illustrated Magazine
Boston Common Press; Published: 2010-10-01; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $17.99
Price in other shops:
Best American Side Dishes: A Best Recipe ClassicAmerica's Test Kitchen; Published: 2005-01; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $8.50
Price in other shops:
Baking Illustratedby Cook's Illustrated Magazine Editors
America's Test Kitchen; Published: 2004-03; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $18.85
Price in other shops:
Steaks, Chops, Roasts & Ribsby Editors of Cook's Illustrated Magazine
America's Test Kitchen; Published: 2004-05; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $13.25
Price in other shops:
Cover & Bake (Best Recipe)Cooks Illustrated; Published: 2004-09-30; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $15.78
Price in other shops:
Perfect Vegetables: Part of "The Best Recipe" Seriesby Editors of Cook's Illustrated Magazine
America's Test Kitchen; Published: 2003-08; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $13.11
Price in other shops:
American Classics: More Than 300 Exhaustively Tested Recipes For America's Favorite Dishesby Editors of Cook's Illustrated Magazine
Boston Common Press; Published: 2002-04; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $19.45
Price in other shops:
The Best International Recipeby Cook's Illustrated Magazine
America's Test Kitchen; Published: 2007-10-01; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $15.00
Price in other shops:
The New Best Recipe: All-New Editionby Cook's Illustrated Magazine
PBS; America?s Test Kitchen; Published: 2004-10-15; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $22.63
Price in other shops: