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La Cucina Di Lidia
by Lidia Matticchio Bastianich
from Broadway

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

• Home cooking, with elegance
  This is really two books, largely interleaved with each other. The cookbook is the more obvious one. It's where Lidia - never truly separable from her husband Felice - exposes the secrets of her kitchen. Correction: kitchens, plural. These are the recipes that have kept the lines long outside of her restaurants back to the early 1970s. Struggling against American palates trained on TV dinners, they addressed and quite possibly created a clientele who discovered that there was more to Italian food than... more info

• Some reservations about this book
  I love Lidia and love her style of cooking. This was her first book and therein lies the rub. I found this book almost inpenetrable. Great stories about her childhood in Istria, but the recipes are almost universally unusable. Octopus salad, cuttlefish sacs, etc. Not the kind of thing you'd be inclined to try in your own kitchen. Lidia is very bright, that much is obvious. But I think she'd tried too hard to impress us with her intellect. I'd try another of her titles, if I were you.

• IT'S NOT MY MOTHER'S ITALIAN COOKING
  I first encountered Lidia Bastianich through the public television program, "New York, The Great Chefs." Ms. Bastianich made Grapes in Grappa. I had never heard of grappa but I knew I wanted to copy that recipe and so I bought the companion book for the series. Many years later, La Cucina di Lidia crossed my hands and I'm glad it did. And not just for the recipes, which are superb. Lidia and I are the same age. While I grew up is a working class suburb in the American Midwest,with its small lots ringed by... more info

• A DELICIOUS FEAST!!!
  A book close to my heart. My family hails from the island of Krk just south of Istria. As a first generation American I am fortunate to have the flavorings of the Adriatic in my soul and palate. This book literally brought tears to my eyes. My family will have hours of enjoyment from this book. As a fellow child of Astoria,Queens---HVALA LIDIA!!!

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