Soups of Italy: Cooking over 130 Soups the Italian Way

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Summary: Great book...
Review: I've lived in Italy for 8 years, these recipes are exactly how my Italians friends and family make thier soups...

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Summary: This is a fabulous, informative, and useful resource!
Review: This book is that rare treat--a cookbook that is historically and culturally informative, stimulating to the taste buds and to the eyes, beautiful to behold, and filled with clear, accessible, and engaging instructions on how to make some of the most sumptuous, delectable, and easy recipes ever to have found their way into print. There is something here for everyone, from the novice to the experienced chef (really!), with recipes for a wide variety of tastes, budgets, and needs, from simple clear soups to hearty meals-in-themselves taken from the gamut of the Italian social and geographical landscape. The author goes to great lengths to ingegrate historical and cultural information of Italy into her instructions on how to prepare these dishes, and also lets her reader know where variations and experimentation are called for, thereby making this one of the most flexible and adaptable cookbooks around. But the book's greatest strengths are its astonishing gustatory rewards embedded in virtually every one of its 130 recipes, for despite the clarity and precision with which the reader is introduced to the various dishes, no one could anticipate from reading alone just how marvelous these soups will taste. They are extraordinary and are sure to make every occasion in which they are used a culinary event. If you are looking for a cookbook that will remain open and in use, rather than on the shelf, this is the one!