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Summary: The Italian Cookbook Must for Every Household
Review: This cookbook is one of the best Italian Cookbooks in my collection. The recipe's are authentic Italian, easy to prepare and delicious. The Rao Cookbook is the perfect gift for a young newleywed couple since it has basically every Italian Recipe one would one to make.
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Summary: one of the best italian cookbooks i've ever seen!
Review: what more can i say than this is the closest to mom's cooking i've ever seen.
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Summary: someone didn't want to tell the family secrets
Review: We looked foward to cooking from this book. However, we've been very disappointed...something is missing...mainly ingredients...otherwise this is the blandest food ever. tried sunday gravy... 3 cans of tomatoes and 2 cans of water with 3tablespoons of tomato paste...no spices...just roasting meats...tasted like tomato soup!
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Summary: Finally! Practical & Delicious Italian Cuisine
Review: About time...All too often the recipes from the cookbooks of great restaurants are convoluted and, quite simply, wrong. These recipes are simple, straight forward and delicious. The only thing missing are more pictures of the dishes. With that, it's a five-star.
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Summary: Great cookbook! These recipes are easy and delicious!
Review: I am a big cookbook fan, and this is probably one of the best I have ever read. The recipes are delicious, simple to follow and none of the ingredients are hard to find. I especially enjoyed the glimpse into the the history of the restaurant's surrounding neighborhood.
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Summary: Terrific neighborhood Italian cooking
Review: Every household has a favorite cooking style, a combination of taste, memories, and the necessities of place, time, and diet. In our house, that position has sometimes been held by French food and occasionally Asian, but the all-time and ultimate winner is Italian. Italian food, with its emphasis on the freshest and best seasonal ingredients - and the least fuss in cooking them - is very appealing. Real Italian cooking, as it is cooked and eaten in Italy, focuses on vegetables and grains, with meats used as seasoning, garnish, and treat, so it's also very healthy. American-Italian cooking - the kind you remember from the old-style neighborhood Italian restaurant of your childhood memories - is based on that, but is much richer, with meat taking the center place. Rao's Cookbook is a perfect melding of the two, offering both classic Italian dishes and classic Italian-American ones. In fact, on page 65, I discovered Sunday Gravy, Rao's version of The Big Spaghetti Dinner, a favorite buffet dinner of ours for many years. I noted with culinary interest and delight that Rao's use the thinner tomato gravy I remember from my visits to Philadelphia's authentic South Philly Italian restaurants instead of the thick tomato sauce (derived, I'd guess, from some tenth generation bastardization of Ragu Bolognese) that we suggest. No one can reasonably expect to get into tiny Rao's (it has 8 tables and one seating) except via celebrity or inheritance. The seats are "owned" by the original diners and Rao's has withstood any enticements to expand. These recipes are the next best thing. If you like to cook Italian style, they may be better! We've tried many of the recipes and enjoyed every one.
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Summary: The best table without a reservation!!
Review: This book is inspirational. I very much enjoy when a cookbook reads like a short story. Rao's takes you in, gives you some history, tells you how to do it, and, voila, you've got the job! A great book!
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Summary: A spectacular guide to easy but delicious Italian food
Review: Wonderful recipes, wonderful stories. Fresh and delicious menus, easy to prepare for non-gourmet cooks, with a real variety of ingredients and tastes. Highly recommended...the pages of ours are already stained with sauce!
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Summary: great italian cookbook with easy to follow recipes
Review: Having lived in NYC, and knowing that I'll never get into Rao's, this book was quickly welcomed onto my cookbook shelves. I've tried several of the recipes and they were easy to follow and great dining experiences. Once artichokes come into season, the stuffed artichoke recipe will be at the top of my list. I know that this recipe is the authentic one. I've already recommended this book to several friends.
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Summary: Mama Mia! If you love Italian food, this book is for you!
Review: What a wonderful cookbook! The recipes are easy to follow and don't require exoctic ingredients you'll never use again. My Italian grandmother and mother cooked in this same manner since I was a small child. If I didn't know better I would think it was their receipes in someone else's cookbook! Buy this book, you will not be disappointed.
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