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# La Cucina: The Regional Cooking of Italy

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Review: Best "Truly Italian" Cookbook I've come across. - Amazing Cook Book filled with recipes from literally all regions of Italy. The best thing about cooking Italian is that there is vast more variety than many other countries. Every region is covered including a few I'd never heard of. Some recipes call for ingredients that may not normally available in US grocery stores. Not to fear. Seems you can find even the most obscure ingredient at local Gourmet Food Stores, even here on desertcart. This is not your everyday "go-to" cookbook, but one to use when you are in the mood to prepare something different for a special occasion. With over 2500 different recipes, even if you prepare one every day, you'll be set for the next 5 1/2 years.
Review: Not your typical cookery book - This is NOT a recipe book from a Food Network cook. There are no stories about how the author spent ages developing this recipe while their little ones scampered underfoot at their country estate. This is an encyclopaedia of Italian cookery. The authors went region by region, and asked for what dishes the locals made, and the variations thereof. There aren't a ton of super precise measurements, probably because nobody who's been cooking a long time needs to give exact proportions. You and I both know that if a recipe calls for a couple pounds of tomatoes, you're probably going to be using like 3 TB - 1/4 cup of oil to fry off your onions and garlic. You're probably going to throw in a handful of chopped/torn basil leaves. Like I said. This isn't your typical hold you by the hand type of book. If you wanted that, I'd suggest Marcella Hazon's Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking. There, she explains exactly what each ingredient is, and how much of it you should be using. However, if you want to know exactly what it is that makes a regional dish unique from how other regions make it, this is where you'd turn. You start noticing subtle differences in how each region treats various proteins, dairy, eggs, and grains. This is like if you wanted to preserve the classic recipes as they are made in each region, before they get made uniform for general consumption. To be honest, this could probably be a multi part series, with one giant tome just covering each region. This is an impressive effort, and I can spend ages flipping through the tome, and finding little pieces of history sprinkled through. A must have for anyone trying to reach that experience they had when wandering through the Italian country side.

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Best "Truly Italian" Cookbook I've come across.
*by A***. on June 14, 2025*

Amazing Cook Book filled with recipes from literally all regions of Italy. The best thing about cooking Italian is that there is vast more variety than many other countries. Every region is covered including a few I'd never heard of. Some recipes call for ingredients that may not normally available in US grocery stores. Not to fear. Seems you can find even the most obscure ingredient at local Gourmet Food Stores, even here on Amazon. This is not your everyday "go-to" cookbook, but one to use when you are in the mood to prepare something different for a special occasion. With over 2500 different recipes, even if you prepare one every day, you'll be set for the next 5 1/2 years.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Not your typical cookery book
*by D***A on August 25, 2019*

This is NOT a recipe book from a Food Network cook. There are no stories about how the author spent ages developing this recipe while their little ones scampered underfoot at their country estate. This is an encyclopaedia of Italian cookery. The authors went region by region, and asked for what dishes the locals made, and the variations thereof. There aren't a ton of super precise measurements, probably because nobody who's been cooking a long time needs to give exact proportions. You and I both know that if a recipe calls for a couple pounds of tomatoes, you're probably going to be using like 3 TB - 1/4 cup of oil to fry off your onions and garlic. You're probably going to throw in a handful of chopped/torn basil leaves. Like I said. This isn't your typical hold you by the hand type of book. If you wanted that, I'd suggest Marcella Hazon's Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking. There, she explains exactly what each ingredient is, and how much of it you should be using. However, if you want to know exactly what it is that makes a regional dish unique from how other regions make it, this is where you'd turn. You start noticing subtle differences in how each region treats various proteins, dairy, eggs, and grains. This is like if you wanted to preserve the classic recipes as they are made in each region, before they get made uniform for general consumption. To be honest, this could probably be a multi part series, with one giant tome just covering each region. This is an impressive effort, and I can spend ages flipping through the tome, and finding little pieces of history sprinkled through. A must have for anyone trying to reach that experience they had when wandering through the Italian country side.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Great layout, great recipes
*by L***E on January 2, 2024*

This book is a treasure. I do not love Italian food when I go to restaurants, but, growing up I had a friend whose mom was Italian and made traditional dishes that were so good. This book has some great pasta, sauce, salad and soup recipes that have turned out delicious. The way the book is organized / laid out is very useful. It’s so big it’s hard to lay open the book to follow the recipe but this mean there are so many recipes in the book! Most of the recipes are easy to follow with not too many ingredients.

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