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Celebrate the generous, comforting red sauce cooking that defines Italian America.
Dig into the best of Italian American cooking with recipes that would make any nonna proud. Bubbling lasagna and drop meatballs are hard to resist, but save room for Braciole and Chicken Scarpariello. Then go on the road to discover dishes from humble delis and hole-in-the-wall restaurants, like Philadelphia Pork Sandwiches, Eggplant Pecorino, and Utica Greens. Learn the tricks behind pizzas from Detroit, Chicago, and St. Louis. Finally, bring home the bakery (and street fair) with garlic knots and zeppole.
Our Top Reviews
Reviewer: Bookwyrm
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Great recipe collection, lots of pix, great design
Review: I’m an Italian-American, Heinz 57 variety; my dad was a first-generation American. Unfortunately, Mama was a horrible cook (please don’t tell her that I said that). Some of the few dishes she was good at included spaghetti and pizza. Unlike the author, my veins did not run with red sauce, but I do have an overwhelming addiction to garlic and an affinity for Italian dishes. Due to my mom’s lack of skill, I had to learn Italian cooking on my own, finding dishes I loved at wonderful Italian restaurants and researching recipes that I could tweak until they tasted the way I wanted them to.In this collection, I have just about every single recipe I could ever want. (Well, where’s the manicotti? Not here, sadly. Thankfully, I have my own recipe, but really… how could they leave out manicotti?) From my experience with other America’s Test Kitchen cookbooks, I know I can trust these recipes. One thing that frustrates me about a lot of modern cookbooks is that the cooks never seem to have tested or even tasted the recipes they’ve included. Nothing worse than working your way through a recipe and wasting ingredients because it turns out inedible. ATK cookbooks take away that uncertainty. If there’s a recipe included, it’s tried, tested, refined, and perfected.I love this cookbook as it includes some of my favorite ATK design elements: a full-page, full-color picture of each dish, a brief explanation of why each recipe works, clear ingredient lists, and comprehensive and accurate directions. Awesome!Mama may not have taught me to cook Italian, but with this cookbook, I am left with a wonderfully complete and helpful resource to make up that lack. I found myself poring over each recipe in anticipation and delighting in the variety of dishes included.Very pleased with this cookbook. Just don’t tell Mama.Let Amazon donate to your favorite charity! Use Amazon Smile (smile.amazon.com) when you order and Amazon will donate to the charity of your choice when you make a qualifying purchase. Check out how Amazon Smile works at https://smile.amazon.com/gp/chpf/about/ref=smi_se_rspo_laas_aas. My shopping is donating to my favorite charity, Canines for Independence at no cost to me. Awesome!
Reviewer: Falmouth
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Full of delicious recipes that you’ll want to try
Review: First I’ll own up to being a big fan of America’s Test Kitchen cookbooks. Although I own a bunch of them, I often borrow new to me titles from the library. Often I’ll only want a recipe or two. But with this book, there were so many recipes that I wanted, I had to order my own copy. I’ve made several recipes from this book and we have been really impressed with the results.I highly recommend this book.
Reviewer: Cazadero
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Good Cookbook
Review: Good cookbook but I darned well KNOW I make better lasagna and bolognese than the recipes in this book. Stick with tried and true classic your grandma’s recipes.This is a good book to get ideas from. Most of the recipes tried so far are pretty good but not necessarily the best I’ve ever had.My opinion of America’s Test Kitchen / Cooks Country is they’re really about selling products through their product “reviews” and “testing.” Recipes are designed to sell Good Grip, Le Cruiset, KitchenAid, Cento, Belgosso, and other high ends kitchenware and foods. The book reflects this.
Reviewer: Lisa
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Authentic
Review: I purchased this book, more than one copy, as gifts. I am Italian- American and friends ask for me for recipes. The recipes in this book- hit the mark. Makes a great gift !
Reviewer: Kindle Customer sooloo
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Wonderful recipes!
Review: I have been looking for a pizza recipe close to Vito and Nick’s delicious signature cracker crust pizza in Chicago. We’ve left the state of IL and the pizza where we live just does not cut it. I was overjoyed to find the Vito and Nick’s pizza recipe in this book! I made the pizza recipe the day the book arrived and my family agrees that life just got better in the northwoods because we can now enjoy Vito and Nick’s Pizza! Can’t wait to try more recipes from this wonderful cook book!
Reviewer: JHR
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Italian sausage spaghetti.
Review: I only tried one recipe. The Italian sausage sauce. Made with fennel. Boy that was good. In a food processor you put half an onion and half a fennel bulb. Give it a spin. Remove from processor. Then do the same with a can of tomatoes, then the Ialian sausage. Everything chopped. Into a pot. Cool altogether. I’ve never made anything that good. Great cookbook.
Reviewer: SFC
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: A book of Family Treasures!
Review: There are so many traditional recipes in this book! Just reading through it and looking at the pictures brought me back to the 1960s when I was a little girl in my Italian home. What a wonderful book and then awesome collection of authentic recipes.
Reviewer: DWS freelance journalist
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: good book but a lot of repeats
Review: I love America’s Test Kitchen and own no less than a dozen of their books – which is sort of the problem. These folks like to do lather, rinse,repeat. From the minute I got the book I realized there were recipes of theirs that have appeared all over the place from television to issues of their magazine to other books I’ve already purchased. It’s true that a lot of the Italian-American goodies are not all in one volume, but I feel like I bought something I already have – just not collected.On a personal note, I also like Jack Bishop but to say in the book he has “red sauce running through his veins” – I also am part Italian and Jack doesn’t even pronounce the names of Italian foods like “bruschetta” and “ricotta” correctly!
Reviewer: Sim
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Every recipe tried was excellent, totally !But the book falls apart, every page becomes loose, totally unacceptable.If I find out that Test Kitchen makes another batch with this in mind and that the books are staying like they should be, I will buy another !
Reviewer: JT
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Love this book! I have tried several recipes and all met my expectations. Given a long line of Italian ancestors, I was impressed by the assortment and variety of classic Italian dishes
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