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Italian Recipe Books

The Complete Italian Vegetarian Cookbook: 350 Essential Recipes for Inspired Everyday Eating (Hardcover)

December 24, 2009

From Library Journal
Bishop, senior editor of Cook’s Illustrated, is also the author of Pasta e Verdura (LJ 3/15/96), a nice collection of vegetarian sauces for pasta. Here are more vegetarian recipes for all courses of a meal, from cold and hot antipasti to dessert. The recipes are fine but nothing special, and some of them [...]

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Sicilian Home Cooking: Family Recipes from Gangivecchio (Hardcover)

December 17, 2009

Amazon.com Review
Wanda and Giovanna Tornabene run a restaurant in Gangivecchio, their 600-year-old family home in Sicily. This is their second cookbook, and it focuses on home cooking, Sicilian style. Italians are well known for their generous hospitality, and the Tornabene women are great ambassadors. Through dozens of personal stories, some funny, some sad, they invite [...]

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Carlo Middione’s Traditional Pasta (Paperback)

November 19, 2009

Amazon.com Review
Carlo Middione owns two well-respected restaurants in San Francisco. A Sicilian-American, he emphasizes cooking pasta properly, pairing it attentively with the right amount of the right sauce, and serving it in moderate-size portions. This warmly illustrated, well-sized paperback updates what Middione originally wrote in 1982. Many of the 65 recipes are Sicilian, including Rigatoni [...]

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The Complete Book of Pasta and Noodles (Paperback)

September 24, 2009

Amazon.com Review
Americans love pasta. But this doesn’t mean we know about its many types, how best to serve it, or even how best to bring it from plate to mouth. Exploring these topics and more, The Cook’s Illustrated Complete Book of Pasta and Noodles offers a comprehensive introduction to the world’s pasta, from spaghetti, couscous, [...]

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Osrow X1000 Pasta & Dough Machine Manual Recipe Book (Pamphlet)

September 10, 2009

For your consideration is a recipe book, manual for the Osrow X1000 pasta & dough machine
This is a 1982 booklet of 14 pages and includes the various dies and their uses
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