Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 641.5945 EAN: 9780060936525 ISBN: 0060936525 Label: William Morrow Cookbooks Manufacturer: William Morrow Cookbooks Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 352 Publication Date: October 01, 2001 Publisher: William Morrow Cookbooks Release Date: October 16, 2001 Sales Rank: 50948 Studio: William Morrow Cookbooks
Product DescriptionWhether it's a bustling eatery in the heart of Florence or a tiny alcove tucked away on a side street in Venice, the trattoria is where Italians go for robust flavors, great friendship, and good times. Patricia Wells' Trattoria now feeds America's passion for Italian food with 150 authentic recipes. Savor a Fresh Artichoke Omelet, succulent Lamb Braised in White Wine, Garlic, and Hot Peppers, a hearty portion of Lasagne with Basil, Garlic, and Tomato Sauce, or a luscious Fragrant Orange and Lemon Cake, and much more. This essential cookbook of Italian trattorias presents a full range of homemade recipes for antipasti, soups, dried and fresh pastas, polenta, seafood, poultry, and meat, with special chapters on breads, pizzas, and desserts. Come explore the heart and soul of Italian cooking in Patricia Wells' Trattoria.
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Patricia Wells' Trattoria
This is an excellent, clear, easy to follow collection of Italian recipes. Every process has a reason and thorough instructions. In the first week, I created three lovely meals from Patricia Wells' Trattoria: Simple and Robust Fare Inspired by the Small Family Restaurants of Italy. Fresh flavors for our meals! Wonderful!
Good but not great
There is certainly nothing wrong with Patricia Wells' Trattoria: Simple and Robust Fare Inspired by the Small Family Restaurants of Italy. The recipes are simple enough, produce generally good results and the instructions are clear. It isn't too chatty and most of the pages are dedicated to actual food and cooking. So as I said there is nothing wrong with Patricia Wells' Trattoria: Simple and Robust Fare Inspired by the Small Family Restaurants of Italy.
Unfortunatly there is nothing really great about it either. All the recipes are fairly basic and don't bring anything new to the table. Non of the recipies offer any sort of new or interesting ideas or variations, so if you already own a couple of books on Italian cooking you probably already have all the recipes covered in Patricia Wells' Trattoria: Simple and Robust Fare Inspired by the Small Family Restaurants of Italy. Marcella Hazan's Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking for example covers everything Patricia Wells' Trattoria: Simple and Robust Fare Inspired by the Small Family Restaurants of Italy covers and more.
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Different but interesting
This is a different type of cookbook than those I have had before. There are some very healthy and simple recipes here.
Patricia Wells Does It Again
I thought of Patricia Wells as being primarily an expert on French cuisine, but this cookbook proves me wrong. The recipes are simple, but elegant. I have prepared the baked risotto with asparagus and spinach for several different guests, and they have all run out to buy Patricia Wells' Trattoria: Simple and Robust Fare Inspired by the Small Family Restaurants of Italy.
All you need is this book and a lace curtain in the window
I have been cooking with 'Bistro', Patricia Wells' book of simple French recipes, for several decades now. I have recently been converted to her 'Paris Cookbook'. So what stopped me from buying her book of Italian trattoria cooking?
Two words: Marcella Hazan.
I am addicted to Hazan's 'Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking'. It's clear. It produces restaurant-quality meals that take only modest effort. And "fancy" is the last thing it is.
I thought I just didn't need another Italian cookbook.
But now, fourteen years after it was first published, "Trattoria" --- a bargain at $13 --- is finally in the house. And, more to the point, in the kitchen. And I am chastened.
