Comments on: Italian Cookbook Roundup

By: Fettuccine with Chicken and Almonds from The Silver Spoon Pasta : Cookerati

Fettuccine with Chicken and Almonds from The Silver Spoon Pasta : Cookerati — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 04:22:03 +0000

[...] is the recipe I made from The Silver Spoon Pasta. My husband is a big fan of almonds and chicken, so it was my first choice. I chopped [...]

By: Spaghetti Alla Carbonara (Spaghetti with Carbonara Sauce) from La Cucina : Cookerati

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 04:18:02 +0000

[...] La Cucina – The Regional Cooking of Italy is a book filled with recipes and history. I made Spaghetti Alla Carbonara from the Lazio Region of Italy where Rome is (at least that’s what the map shows). Here’s what they had to say about this recipe: Is Spaghetti Alla Carbonara an authentic Italian dish? One school of though traces it back to a Neapolitan recipe that supposedly(no details survive) called for cheese and beaten eggs. Another school attributes the recipe to the presence of American GIs in Italy at the end of World War 11. These soldiers were in the habit of taking their daily rations to local restaurants, where the cooks combined them with Italian foods to create hearty “American-style” meals. [...]

By: Sophie

Sophie — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:19:46 +0000

I borrowed the first book from my local library!! This is one lovely thick & very useful book!