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Summary: Yummy!
Review: An entertaining cookbook with great, do-able ethnic recipes. I love the intros to the individual recipes. One of my favorite cookbooks, and I have many!
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Summary: One of the BEST!!!
Review: As a freelance Caterer this book is one of my all time favorites! I have given copies to many friends and family members. The black & white cookies are to die for. I have made so many of the recipes in this book and ALL of them are fantastic! Try the soups you'll love them!
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Summary: Informative and Entertaining
Review: First of all, this book is worth its weight in gold just for the brisket recipie alone! (try Haina's Sure-fire Brisket - its easy and super!) Not only does this book have a great variety of multi-ethnic recipies, but it has interesting sections on different aspects of New York cooking. It's a great read and has super recipies.Also, Catherine Hepburn's brownies are fabulous and Carrot Top carrot cake will make a carrot cake lover out of anyone!
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Summary: Excellent!
Review: For years, Molly O'Neill wrote the food page of the New York Times Magazine, and this book is essentially her collected wisdom, a valuable addition indeed to any culinary shelf. The cookbook looks and feels like it should be a more modern version of an American staple-food cookbook such as The Joy Of Cooking. It isn't glossy or elaborately photographed, but once you open it up, you realize you're in a different league of cuisine. Thanks to New York's immigrant traditions it doesn't focus on any particular national cuisine - instead giving recipes for the food you find in the City; everything from latkes to jerk chicken to asian-influenced noodle dishes. Every recipe I've tried has worked marvelously, and few of them are terribly difficult. The recipes are broken down by course/type of food (e.g. pasta) rather than region of origin. She's included little anecdotes about food, life in New York, and the lives of some of the chefs whose recipes she's included in the book. Unlike many, this cookbook is actually amusing to read. On a side note, the cookbook had a cameo in the recent movie "Proof of Life."
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Summary: A Classic
Review: From someone who loves to cook and has over 50 cookbooks this is easily in my top three, by virtue of the incredible New York culinary lore (and I don't mean the high-brow, uptown stuff, and the quality of the recipes. There are too many good ones to highlight here, so my advice is to have a look. This book is so much fun, I read it in bed at night.
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Summary: endless bounty
Review: Great resource with terrific recipes. Experienced cooks can enjoy this compendium as much as novices. The only drawback is the index format: dishes are listed by name of the creator. A little confusing at times, but only a small inconvenience.
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Summary: New York food in a book!
Review: I am a New York native, born and bred, and was almost shocked to find so many recipes that turn out foods that taste just like I remember! Molly has captured the essence of New York City's incredible variety of foods. I love it! I love it! I love it!
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Summary: Absolutely Wonderful!
Review: I have cooked many of the recipes in this book, and they all turned out great! It's the cookbook I look at first when I want to cook something interesting. You have got to try the Tuna Rockefeller -- superb!
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Summary: one of my very favorites
Review: I have used this cookbook for several years and it is reliably wonderful. Well researched, the recipes are all fabulous original ethnic favorites. My best cacciatore, marinara, chicken paprikash, etc. all from immigrants to our wonderful country. Really a jewel.
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Summary: Great food from just about everywhere
Review: I haven't always been impressed with Molly O'Neill's food column in the New York Times magazine: while it's always interesting, the food is frequently complicated and relies heavily on expensive, obscure ingredients. This book came as a pleasant surprise, therefore. This is one of those rare cookbooks that is both a joy to read and a genuine source of recipes. I'm a pretty novice cook, and everything I've cooked from this book has been a success. This is also one of the few all-purpose cookbooks I've encountered that's genuinely international. And Katherine Hepburn supplied O'Neill with the best brownie recipe I've ever encountered. I keep this cookbook on my kitchen counter, and I've given a copy to my mother. I can't think of higher praise than that.
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