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| Truffles: Ultimate Luxury, Everyday Pleasure | 
 enlarge | Authors: Rosario Safina, Judith Sutton
Category: Book
List Price: $39.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  11 reviews
Sales Rank: 1033439
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Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 288
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.9
Dimensions (in): 10 x 8.1 x 0.7
ASIN: B000E97X0M
Publication Date: October 31, 2002
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 WOULDN'T KNOW HOW TO RATE b/c THEY NEVER SHIP IT!!!! November 29, 2006
Tried more than 3 times to order this book from Amazon. Each time they have changed the shipping dates to months and months after I placed my order, over and over again until I finally cancel. After THREE attempts to buy this book I give up. This is ridiculous! Why are they selling this book on Amazon if they can't keep it stocked??????
 Ugly--But Delicious and Worth Their Weight in Gold January 18, 2003
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
This book is a bit of a heartbreaker in these tight economic times: The best truffles--the revered white truffles of Alba, in Northern Italy--were going for about [ninety dollars] an ounce the last time I looked, or dared to look. Still, it's a good read. If you (like most of us) can't afford truffles but (like some of us) are still entranced by them, this books counts as 'armchair dining.' And if you can afford these gems, this book will help you buy intelligently. Not only are there many different kinds of truffle but these days 'counterfeit' truffles--second- or third-raters dragged in from Hungary and China--have been sneaked onto the market. The lore you need to to tell them apart (and what to do with them when you buy) is here presented by Rosario Safina, president of Urbani USA, the world's largest truffle importer. Safina and his co-auther, Judith Sutton, do a good job of presenting both information and recipes. Apart from genuinely useful information, they also impart some truly strange facts. Considering what truffles fetch on the market today, is it not strange for example that not so many years ago people were ashamed to eat them? They were poor folks' food--ugly, strong-smelling fungi hunted out by dogs and dug up from underground. Well, there was a time when New Englanders felt the same way about another poverty dish--lobster.
Accessible Luxury January 15, 2003
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I love truffles but I've always thought of them as something you order in restaurants, not use in home cooking. They're expensive and I didn't really know how to buy them, store them, how much to use, and all that. This very well-written book tells all--and now that there's no mystery and I'm not afraid of making an costly mistake, I will buy truffles and truffle products. Truffle butter, honey, oil, cheese, and flour are all simple to use and will be great fun to play around with. To me they are the best kind of convenience foods--they add alot of flavor and luxury without a lot of cooking or prep time. I don't spend lots of time cooking--I think you can prepare great food without it--and this book seems to have that same philosopy. The recipes are simple and enticing. They often focus on humble foods--like potatoes, eggs, pasta, rice, lentils, and vinaigrettes--which give you a great way to flavor all your favorite foods and make any meal special with very little effort.
Another great cookery book by Judith Sutton December 20, 2002
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
For years, Chef/Writer Sutton has guided my choice of cookery books through her book reviews and articles. Now her latest work--I often turn to her previous piece on champagne and chocolate--is a joy to behold. Beautiful, well-conceived. And the recipes, etc. are also great. Good reading. Good eating. Great gift. The best cookery book of the year.
Truffles y My Ultimate Choice December 6, 2002
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Truffles Ultimate Luxury Everyday Pleasure Cookbook by Rosario Safina and Judit Sutton, with the marvelous photographs by Shimon and Tammar Rothstein - is much much more than an ordinary cookbook. The book treasures not only plenty of recipes (Over 115, I liked the smoked duck salad with pancetta, warm ricotta salata and black truffles, among other dishes too) and treasures not only The Rothstein's accompanying beautifull photos (didn't they just come out with Eric Riper's Cookbook A Return to Cooking?). The book also holds in its pages a brief history of truffles plus an important and an eyelightening information about The Truffles Family (White and Black Truffles and their relatives), How truffles grow and harvested, How to buy, store and serve truffles, and last but not least - introducing the truffle products: affordable luxuries. It calls for a celebration to all truffles lovers. It is also an opportunity to those, who are not aquainted with truffles, to taste it, to learn how to prepare outstanding tuffles-base dishes, and to start a new long friendship with that delicious food. Truffles are unique and The New Truffles Ultimate Luxury Everyday Pleasure Cookbook makes a valuable gift for my friends and myself.
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