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Giada at Home: Family Recipes from Italy and California
Since her debut on Food Network in 2002 with the hit program Everyday Italian, Giada De Laurentiis has been enticing Americans with her updated twists on Italian favorites. Her dedication to ease, healthfulness, and—above all else—flavor have won her a permanent place in the hearts of home cooks. In Giada at Home, she shares a personal look into how she cooks for those dea...more
Hardcover, 240 pages
Published
March 30th 2010
by Clarkson Potter
(first published 2010)
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Those who follow Giada De Laurentiis on her Emmy Award winning TV program (and there are jillions of you) know just how delicious, healthful, and beautifully presented her dishes are. Her four previous cookbooks have all topped bestseller lists, however, for this Giada fan GIADA AT HOME is something very special because not only are there a multitude of tasty recipes, but it is also a warm affectionate look at family, friends, and her adopted state of California.
I cannot remember seeing a cook w...more
There Goes My Diet...not really! but this book (even the ARC in which the photos are Black and White) will tempt even the most reluctant cook into the kitchen.
In Giada at Home: Family Recipes from Italy and California the popular Food Network star shares her love of food - not just the nourishment that food provides but she celebrates the power that food has to bring people together - family and friends.
This book shows why Giada has become the star of a hit TV series...her sincerity comes across...more
In Giada at Home: Family Recipes from Italy and California the popular Food Network star shares her love of food - not just the nourishment that food provides but she celebrates the power that food has to bring people together - family and friends.
This book shows why Giada has become the star of a hit TV series...her sincerity comes across...more
Good points:
The photos are GORGEOUS, food as well as people. If you just flip through cookbooks without cooking, this is a nice one!
The stories about the dishes are short, interesting, and fun to read.
Negatives:
The majority of the recipes in this "home cooking" book are disappointingly formal. Not really much of a weeknight supper kind of book.
Some of the ingredients recommended or required are expensive or harder to find. Not a huge surprise, but unfortunately true of recipes that attracted
my...more
The photos are GORGEOUS, food as well as people. If you just flip through cookbooks without cooking, this is a nice one!
The stories about the dishes are short, interesting, and fun to read.
Negatives:
The majority of the recipes in this "home cooking" book are disappointingly formal. Not really much of a weeknight supper kind of book.
Some of the ingredients recommended or required are expensive or harder to find. Not a huge surprise, but unfortunately true of recipes that attracted
my...more
Giada at Home / 978-0-30745-101-9
Part cookbook, but with biographical elements that provide interesting insight and reading into the featured chef's adjustment from Italian cuisine to American cuisine, and her fusion attempts with both, this book is an interesting read with several mouth-watering recipes. Many of the recipes feature full-page finished photos, and most of the Italian cuisine dialect is carefully explained to the reader (finally, I now know the difference between prosciutto and pa...more
Part cookbook, but with biographical elements that provide interesting insight and reading into the featured chef's adjustment from Italian cuisine to American cuisine, and her fusion attempts with both, this book is an interesting read with several mouth-watering recipes. Many of the recipes feature full-page finished photos, and most of the Italian cuisine dialect is carefully explained to the reader (finally, I now know the difference between prosciutto and pa...more
If I can find a few delicious, easy-to-prepare, yet elegant, vegetarian recipes in a cookbook, I think it's worth a 4-star recommendation. This one has several and the layout is beautiful, easy to read with beautiful color photographs. I love some of the dishes I've prepared from this book and I've found them to be very easy to prepare. I don't like complicated recipes or dishes. Giada is charming and knows her stuff.
This book includes the pasta ponza recipe which Giada is eating on the cover. When I recently saw her at the South Beach food and Wine festival she declared that the pasta ponza was her all time favorite recipe and that nutella was her favorite food. For me personally there was not too much I would make here. I still love Giada though. Favorite recipes in this book include chocolate honey almond tart and espresso caramel bars.
The pictures are mouth-wateringly beautiful! However, I agree with other readers that some of the recipes are formal. I do like to try new things (even if they look challenging due to ingredients or time), so that doesn't bother me so much. My favorite is the gorgonzola and porcini mushroom risotto. I find it easy to make, and it's always a sucess.
We're fans of Giada at Home on the Food Network so my daughter bought me this for my birthday. It's full of fun and interesting recipes, much like her TV program. Some of them will never be made here for one reason or another, but many others will. Every Giada recipe we've made has been a success so I look forward to trying some of these.
It would be easy to hate Giada De Laurentiis with her seemingly perfect life, perfect husband, perfectly adorable child. But, I don't. Her latest cookbook is full of gorgeous photographs highlighting an array of delicious sounding recipes. Hate her if you must but I bet you'll still be tempted by these dishes.
Although there are many recipes that I will not try in this cookbook, there are 5 that I photocopied and am adding to my collection. Most of the recipes will take too much time to prepare & cook, and that doesn't work for me. Especially having small children to look after.
This is a nice blend of Italian and Californian cuisine, I will definitely make some things from this easy to read and enjoyable cook book. I read some of this with a 2 year old who enjoyed the pictures.
Beautiful recipes - I'm eager to try them out! Gorgeous photography ~ I'm a fan of Giada so haven't met a cookbook of hers I haven't like yet. Darling daughter pics in here too :)
I'm a Giada fan, so of course I had to check out this book. I liked the recipes. I also like the fact that most of the dishes had a picture to go along with.
As much as I love italian cooking... I'm not sure who I was fooling getting this book. Much of the ingredients needed I'd be lucky to find. Meijer doesn't even have proscutto... they have pacheta .. which is too salty. Anyways, to get these kinds of food I'd might as well pay to go out since it would be so expensive to purchase everything necessary to make these kinds of foods. Even though many of these recipes I could make myself I just cuoldn't find any that I would want to or that I wouldn't...more
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Lovely illustration in the book and clear notes to follow.
Cauliflower and pancetta gratinata, oh my! I enjoyed several of the recipes she offered in the book, and appreciate her taste for fresh flavors. Surprisingly, Many of her recipes are VERY toddler friendly.
This cookbook is a little heavy on the cheese and meat. It's hard to find vegetarian recipes, but the ones that I made were delicious!
Giada is my favorite celebrity chef. Her cookbooks are beautiful -- pictures plus stories plus cooking tidbits. Another great collection of recipes -- the veggie and brunch sections excite me the most. Looking forward to trying them all out.
Every time we order a copy for our Library it disapears so I CANNOT wait to get another copy! It must be a wonderful cookbook for it not to stay on the shelves.
May 30, 2010
Yuki
rated it
4 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
Foodies, Families
Shelves:
food-and-drink,
italia
So far I've made the Pecorino & Bean salad which was very easy to prepare and a big hit with a crowd over the weekend!
One of my favorite cookbooks - her recipes are so flavorful and fun
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Giada De Laurentiis is a Los Angeles-based celebrity chef who's published four cookbooks and hosts several shows for Food Network. Born in Rome, Italy, she grew up surrounded by homemade Italian cooking. As a child, she and her family moved to California, where she spent countless hours at her grandfather's restaurant DLL Foodshow. Upon graduating from UCLA with a degree in anthropology, Giada stu...more
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