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Nigellissima: Instant Italian Inspiration (2012)

by Nigella Lawson(Favorite Author)

3.93 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0701187336 (ISBN13: 9780701187330)

languge

English

genre

Food & Cookbooks

publisher

Chatto & Windus

review 1: Italian food is not high on my list of favourites. (It almost seems like blasphemy to admit this. I don't like capers, olives or veal.) I did enjoy this recipe book, precisely because it is the Nigella treatment of Italian cuisine. She has made a thorough study, kept the best bits, and made the rest out of her extensive technical knowledge of food. I like Italian-style recipes a lot more once they have been run through her filter.
review 2: This just didn't do much for me. I think that if I had picked it up without Lawson attached to it, I might have liked it better - it's a beautiful book, and many of the recipes are simple, delicious and kind of different. I love her fascination with black pasta; the fig and olive chutney is great and the roast chicken... more with vegetables, while kind of a no-brainer, is totally the kind of thing I wish I'd thought of. But her intros, which I usually love, just don't feel authentic. She's constantly justifying herself, refers too often to other recipes and books that aren't included here, and admits that many of the recipes are derivative of others. So while this is interesting, it's not her best work. less

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