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| Mario Batali Simple Italian Food: Recipes from My Two Villages | 
 enlarge | Author: Mario Batali
Brand: Mario Batali
Category: Book
List Price: $35.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  38 reviews
Sales Rank: 46615
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1st
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 288
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.1
Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 7.6 x 1.1
MPN: B361
ISBN: 0609603000
Dewey Decimal Number: 641.5945
EAN: 9780609603000
ASIN: 0609603000
Publication Date: September 29, 1998
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Condition: Good - Free shipping confirmation & tracking. 100% of your purchase helps Goodwill create jobs and change lives. A readable copy. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact (the dust cover may be missing). May have usage wear, reading creases, writing inside, bent pages, notes, highlighting, stains, light damage, exposure to water and/or stickers.
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| Customer Reviews:
 Fun to Look Through-Not as Fun to Use November 1, 2000
124 out of 135 found this review helpful
This book is enjoyable to read, but not as useful as I had anticipated. Many of the recipes just don't use ingredients that I can easily find or even care to use like rabbit, squab, pheasant, frogs' legs etc... That said there are some good, practical recipes-just not as many as I hoped for. I'm Italian and grew up around delicious homemade Italian food, just not the type of dishes Batali creates. Batali's recipes are indeed authentic, but not necessarily tempting. There aren't enough pasta recipes, but plenty of meat and seafood recipes in the book. Unfortunately this book spends more time on my bookshelf than in my kitchen. Try to look at a copy before purchasing this one.
 One of the best Italian culinary cook book for your home! August 25, 2000
20 out of 24 found this review helpful
I've bought and read so many culinary cook books but I find this book an excellent choice for Italian food lovers! Although Italian cooking consists in using simple ingredients, Mario Batali enhanced the simplicity to a delicacy by his way of using his ingredients. Its true that some of his ingredients seem exotic, but by replacing the ingredient with something similar, it will still do the trick. I am sure that others will enjoy his recipies. This book is the perfect choice for your culinary library!
Hard to find ingredients July 16, 2000
93 out of 104 found this review helpful
Being a fan of Mario Batali on the Food Network, I had high expectations for this book. His shows always made Italian cooking look simple. As a beginner cook, the title sent visions of me making Italian dishes for everyday meals. Unfortunately, many of the dishes use hard-to-find or rather expensive ingredients. Some of the ingredients used: rabbit, venison, saffron, etc. I have tried several of the dishes (mostly pasta) and they turned out quite well. The recipes I tried are mostly strong-flavored and tasty. If you love pasta, I think you'll like this book.If the Carne section (which is where most of the meat dishes reside) used more of the common meats like beef, chicken, or pork I think I would have rated this cookbook much higher. A small gripe: the recipes do not show which page the photos are or that they have photos at all. That makes the photos harder to find and in fact, it's quite easy to assume that the recipe has no photo at all! That's too bad considering that photos often help in deciding which of the dishes to try.
Create your own Italian village May 7, 2000
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
"Mario Batalia's Simple Italian Food: Recipes from My Two Villages" is the quintessential Italian cook book for anyone who wants to create their own Italian culinary masterpieces in the familiar surroundings of their own kitchens. This book is beautifully illustrated, very easy to read and provides the reader with the necessary basic's concerning the use of ingredients. Mario encourages us to use fresh ingredients from our own "villages" and not to be afraid to subsitute freely if a particular ingredient is not locally available. Follow the receipes, be creative when necessary and success will not be far behind. Bravo Mario.
Create your own Italian village May 7, 2000
26 out of 27 found this review helpful
"Mario Batalia's Simple Italian Food: Recipes from My Two Villages" is the quintessential Italian cook book for anyone who wants to create their own Italian culinary masterpieces in the familiar surroundings of their own kitchens. This book is beautifully illustrated, very easy to read and provides the reader with the necessary basic's concerning the use of ingredients. Mario encourages us to use fresh ingredients from our own "villages" and not to be afraid to subsitute freely if a particular ingredient is not locally available. Follow the receipes, be creative when necessary and success will not be far behind. Bravo Mario.
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