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Title: Italian Farmhouse Cookbook by Susan Herrmann Loomis, Anne Smith ISBN: 0-7611-0527-1 Publisher: Workman Publishing Company Pub. Date: June, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.18 (11 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Yes, cookbooks are about recipes ...
Comment: I am a cook, not a poser. I don't buy cookbooks because they look good on my coffee table. I buy cookbooks because the recipes intrigue me, and I want to learn more about a particular style of cooking. Who cares what fonts are used, as long as they're readable? Who cares if the illustrations are simplistic? It's called "The Italian FARMHOUSE Cookbook." If a book that purports to be about rustic Italian cooking had the same look and feel of Thomas Keller's ultra-sleek French Laundry Cookbook, I'd be concerned. The same way I'd be concerned if I walked into a local osteria in some gorgeous, dripping-with-age-and-charm rustic Italian town and saw track lighting. This book states -- proudly -- that it is about the simplicities of Italian food, and brings to the fore the kind of inside information that only an author who has walked the walk can know. If you want slick photographs and pretentious food, the titles of which that take almost as long to pronounce as the dish takes to be prepared, go elsewhere. If you've recently read "Under the Tuscan Sun" and wish you could have joined Frances Mayes in her kitchen, this just might be the next best thing.
Rating: 5
Summary: Am I ever glad I bought this cook book !
Comment: I recently purchased the Italian Farmhouse Cookbook, after reading five reviews listed here on Amazon! Since four of the five were extremely complimentary, and one very negative, I with only slight hesitation ordered the book.....
Am I ever glad I did! Obviously the negative review (from a reader supposedly in New York) was totally inappropriate and wrong! This cook book is fantastic!
I love Thai, Italian, and Mexican cooking (particularly low fat versions) and have a library of over 50 of the best cook books I could find. At the time I ordered this book, I also purchased a "famous" large format Italian cookbook, with large color pictures of each recipe item, and gorgeous pictures of the Italian countryside.
But Loomis' book is superior to that or any other Italian cookbook I've seen. If you demand glossy color pictures of Italy, don't buy this cook book! But if you want to actually FEEL as though you know the best Italian cooking and what the factors and feelings are in creating it, then buy it.
The recipes are astoundingly good and the writing is wonderful. Her descriptions of the people and cooks she encountered on her journey through the Italian countryside are wonderful and her recipes are the same. The author's fine writing style, along with the wisdom and authentic cooking ideas she gathered on her visits to various homes, provide such a strong foundation for the beautiful recipes themselves.
This is a "must have" Italian cookbook, no question about it!
Rating: 5
Summary: If I Were A Green Bean....
Comment: If I were a green bean willing to sacrifice myself for someone's dinner, I'd hope that they read Susan Hermann Loomis' Italian Farmhouse Cookbook and prepared me as 'Green Beans with Tomatoes' with fresh sage, olive oil, and garlic.
We had Loomis' green beans tonight along with 'Chicken with Lemon Rosemary Salt.' Last night we had her 'Red Onion Pizza' which is made with the best homemade pizza dough that I've found anywhere.
If you're looking for a good Italian cookbook with simple recipes and easy prep this is it.
Mark this one KEEPER.
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Title: French Farmhouse Cookbook by Susan Herrmann Loomis, Patricia Wells ISBN: 1563054884 Publisher: Workman Publishing Company Pub. Date: November, 1996 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Farmhouse Cookbook by Susan Herrmann Loomis, Ken Jacobson ISBN: 0894807722 Publisher: Workman Publishing Company Pub. Date: November, 1991 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: On Rue Tatin : Living and Cooking in a French Town by Susan Herrmann Loomis ISBN: 0767904559 Publisher: Broadway Pub. Date: 30 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Great American Seafood by Susan Herrmann Loomis ISBN: 0894805789 Publisher: Workman Publishing Company Pub. Date: July, 1988 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Patricia Wells' Trattoria : Simple and Robust Fare Inspired by the Small Family Restaurants of Italy by Patricia Wells, Steven Rothfeld ISBN: 0060936525 Publisher: William Morrow Pub. Date: 16 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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