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The Romagnolis' Table: Italian Family Recipes
The Romagnolis' Table Italian Family Recipes Author:Margaret Romagnoli Four hands, one stove...What happens husband wife share the same stove? Margaret and Franco Romagnoli, who have been chopping, slicing, and sizzling together for twenty-bne years, are the most irrestible culinary duo since salt and pepper. First produced and seen on WGBH, Boston, they received such acclaim that now they are shown coa... more »st to coast on PBS in every major city of the country.
"The Romagnolis' Table" is their collection of over two hundred favorite recipes (including ones most often requested by fans) that show working parents--who must keep an eye on their budget as well as their children--how to create authentic yet refreshingly simple everyday Italian meals. But more than stimulating to the appetite, this good-humored, conversational cookbook ushers the Romagnolis right into your kitchen to preside over your burners' daily doings. Whether telling you how to prepare artichoke hearts in olive oil or how to make pasta from scratch, they give clear, easy-to-follow instruction combined with lively anecdotes about traditional Italian eating and cooking. In Naples, for instanced to determine whether the pasta was done, the cook would extract one piece from the boiling pot and fling it against the wall, If cooked just right, the pasta would stick for a count of three, then plop to the floor. If it didn't stick, it wasn't done yet. If it stuck longer, it was overcooked.
Characteristic of the typical Italian family meal, these recipes for spaghetti, charcoal makers' style; yellow and green lasagna; cannelloni; chicken, devil's style; eggplant parmigiana; Italian fruit cup; zuppa inglese ("English soup" that is neither English nor soup but a delectable cake); pizza (genuine Italian, not American style, for a change), and many more exquisite treats are all as uncomplicated to make as they are to eat.
As one enthusiastic fan exclaimed, "The Romagnolis are so delightful and compatible, they leave you with such a good feeling of well-being, it just makes you want to cook, whether you can or not." With their book in hand, even the peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwich "chef" will discover that Italian family cooking--and eating--are pleasure, pure and simple.« less
Reader-girl - reviewed The Romagnolis' Table: Italian Family Recipes on
This is the original book, the one many grew up with. There is, of course, a newer revised version out, but just like Joy of Cooking, you always want the one you know.