Italian Cookbook: Famous Italian Recipes That Satisfy: Baking, Pizza, Pasta, Lasagna, Chicken Parmesan, Meatballs, Desserts, Cannoli, Tiramisu, Gelato & More (2017 First Edition (8x10) Size) Paperback – July 22, 2017

This cookbook has favorites like Pizza, and Chicken dishes with included ingredient sizes and serving sizes. My favorite thing offered in the book aside from the dishes are the knowledge on cooking ingredients, it reminds me of my favorite Gordon Ramsey cook book because he does exactly the same thing. Reading this I have learned about tomato sauce, pasta, cooking times, yeast, flower, and many other cooking things worth knowing. My favorite dish that I will 100% be making is the Baked Ziti with Ricotta, I loved Baked Ziti but I always use recipes from google and never a cookbook. I will also be trying the Chicago Deep Dish Pizza. The only downside of the book is that the author does not provide pictures of the food. When I am reading this book, I imagine the food looking beautifully cooked but not everyone knows exactly what they are cooking is supposed to look like as a finished product.

This is a great book if you are just learning to cook. The instructions are simple and fool proof. The detail would help anyone cook Italian food, especially if it's one of your first meals cooked and you want to impress someone. With just twenty recipes, the book is filled with too much writting of basic knowledge. The egg plant parmesan looked very much like my mother's so to me, Mario definitely has Italian recipes and I would say, most all look delicious. If you are a beginner, or know someone who is just starting to cook, get this book for them. Unfortunately with e-books, many people who collect cookbooks and have sticky notes sticking out for favorite recipes, this won't work. Many people like photos to see how meal will (or should) look. I compliment Mario for making this an easy to read and follow cookbook, but to me, and it's just my opinion, I found it having too much filling of needless material. But, I would not hesitate to purchase this for some one just learning to cook. This just was not for me.

This inexpensive Italian Cookbook is really nice. It starts out with an introduction to the book, a bit about the author, kitchen safety tips, recipe abbreviations, recipe equivalents which come in handy, cooking conversion. The reader learns about using quality ingredients, cheese tips and more. Learning about what flours to use for what, the different yeasts. Plus, which in my mind is very important is the different kinds of pasta and cooking times. The best tomato sauces are important too in any great Italian dish.The recipes include pizza's, chicken recipes, meat recipes and even a few dessert recipes. If you are looking for a great Italian recipe, this book will give you a great start for that perfect meal. No complicated instructions to follow. Servings, cooking level and instructions. A perfect cookbook!This review is done strictly voluntarily and thoughts are my own.

This is a brilliant little book - perfect for new chefs trying to get into the cooking/baking world! The book features many traditional recipes in a clear, concise, and easy-to-read manner. It's very accessible to those not familiar with any of the terminology, know-how, or techniques as well! I would definitely recommend this to anyone who feels like they're just not good at cooking, or to someone young who wants to start learning and doing things for themselves! I've got the Kindle version downloaded, and I plan on using this to help some of the littler ones get started :DBetter yet, the recipes are pretty great of their own merit! In simplifying the recipes, Mario Mazzo definitely never watered down any of these classics! Italian cooking is a lot like engineering - less is definitely more, and the author is spot-on in delivering a good, simple recipe that can be added onto later at the chef's discretion.Overall, the cookbook is simple, good, and perfect for anyone either as a quick reference or as an introduction to the fine art of Italian cooking.Pros - - Simple English - Good instructions - Good recipesCons - - At the price point, I'm not sure I can point out a single flaw!

The book contains 20 recipes and starts with 12 chapters of introductory material about common abbreviations, recipe equivalents, conversions between metric and American measurements, and so forth. The recipes are varied from chicken Parmesan, eggplant Parmesan, several pizzas, pastas and 7 desert recipes.Book organization: the recipes are very detailed and each spans many pages(3 or 4 pages is typical). The recipes specify the level of complexity, and how many people they will feed. However, they do not have no pictures of completed dish and no caloric information for each recipe.The many introductory sections and the detailed explanations in each recipe make it a good book for novice cooks.Ali Julia review

Strangely, the recipes in this little book are mostly for dishes which I already cook frequently, and even the recipes are very similar to m own. I will probably use his recipe for pizza dough, though, because the one I usually use is in a paperback cookbook which is almost as decrepit as I am. I will also probably try his recipe for panna cotta, since it looks easy and good and uses ingredients and techniques I'm used to.

This book is a little gem full of great recipes. You can tell that Mario poured his heart and soul into this book and his recipes, and his personality comes through in the stories and tips he shares with his readers. This is my favorite Italian cookbook; even though there aren't a ton of recipes, these are the ones that everyone loves, including pizza, chicken parmesan, pasta and of course tiramisu. I would highly recommend it.

I was far from impressed with this Italian cook book. There are 115 pages and only about 49 of them contain recipes. 66 pages ( for me) of useless information.The only color is on the front and back covers. The only pictures beside the cover, are in the very front of the bookand there are only 6 of them in black and white. An Italian cookbook for this Italian was very disappointing.

"Stop Crying For Pictures" says the author and unfortunately he is 100% WRONG! This book is actually useless. Very bad format, no styling at all - it is like it was printed by a manually typed text. I can do a better job for just an hour. The site where the photos are available (because the author has made the decision to use the cheapest print available on the market) is also absolutely useless - no structure. just plain HTML5 with no logical navigation, The photos on the site are dumped in a page - good look finding the recipe form the book and match it with the photo from the site.So again - this must be the most useless cookbook ever.

This is a perfect gift for all you wanna be cooks out there--I recommend it.