The Italian Farmer's Table: Authentic Recipes and Local Lore from Northern Italy

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Review by jan, 2010-07-28

this cook book is great. Everyone should have it. The receipes are delicious very informative and also like the pics.

Review by Suellen Kolbo, 2010-04-05

I love this book. Full of complicated but nevertheless easy recipes, I have been using it as bedside reading. Since I live on a ranch in California and have recently come back from my first trip to Italy, this is a travelogue for me as well, reminding me of the universality of rural living and good food...OK, Italy is better than my podunk Northern California area. There is enough commentary about the region and visits to cheese makers, butcher shops, and accomodations from fancy lodges to humble farms to make it simply good reading. I wish it didn't have the matte-finish pictures now common in cookbooks...glossy is so much prettier. However, I'd recommend this book highly.

Review by Lois Sabatino, 2010-03-26

Beautifully designed, and loaded with interesting Italian recipes from a young couple from Connecticut who travelled extensively in Italy.

Review by Wendy O, 2010-02-28

So far, I've only made one recipe from this cookbook and it turned out very well. Some of the ingredients may be hard to come by (we don't have a lot of Wild Boar available where I live) but the recipes mostly look doable and I will continue to try them.

Review by Ellen P. Lafleche-christian, 2010-02-23

The Italian Farmer's Table is more than cookbook, it's a journey through Northern Italy. The Italian Farmer's Table is a paperback cookbook measuring 8 1/2" x 8" and contains 320 pages. This cookbook contains 150 authentic recipes and local lore from different areas of Northern Italy. It has eight chapters each of which focusses on a different area in Northern Italy.



The chapters included are Liguria, Piemonte, Valle D'Aosta, Lombardia, Trentino-Alto Adige, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Veneto, and Emilia-Romagna. Each of these chapters includes a beautiful colored map so you can see exactly where each area is in Northern Italy. There are several paragraphs at the front of each chapter that describe that region along with a number of beautiful photographs.



The recipe title is written in both English and Italian which lends to the exotic feel of the cookbook. Each recipe offers a list of ingredients with the measurements in both metric and U.S. equivalents. The instructions are well written and very easy to follow. There's a nice variety of types of recipes including main dishes, soups, salads and desserts.



Some of the recipes call for meats that some cooks may not be familiar using like rabbit and duck. There are a few gourmet cheeses that may be difficult for some cooks to find but substitutions (when available) are listed next to the ingredients list. Throughout the cookbook, there are a number of discussions of wines of the region. The photograhs included are not only of the dishes themselves but of the area farms, kitchens, produce and animals.



The 150 authentic recipes include: Swiss Chard and Ricotta Tarts, Fried Butternut Squash Ravioli, Lavender Encrusted Chicken with Pancetta, Rabbit with Olives and Pine Nuts, Frozen Chocolate Ricotta Cream Cake, Carpaccio with Gorgonzola Sauce, Pears and Walnuts and many more succulent appetizers, side dishes, main courses and desserts!



This cookbook is easily a collector's item. The Italian Farmer's Table will wow you for not only the photograhps and articles but for the scrumptous Italian recipes it offers. It's one of those cookbooks I curl up in a chair with to read.