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| Author: Giada De Laurentiis
Publisher: Clarkson Potter
Category: Book
List Price: $32.50
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Rating:  313 reviews
Sales Rank: 691
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 256
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 9.6 x 7.5 x 1
ISBN: 1400052580
Dewey Decimal Number: 641.5945
EAN: 9781400052585
ASIN: 1400052580
Publication Date: February 22, 2005
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Condition: May have some marks or highlights.
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| Customer Reviews:
 Fun! March 10, 2008
Giada's recipes are great. What makes them great is that they are easy and yet very elegant. Also, the ingredients are easy to come by and not so expensive and rare that you end up shelving the book. I really enjoy putting together her recipes and so far - my boyfriend has been going back for seconds each time.
I'm new to cooking and I work full time so another thing I enjoy about her recipes is that most of them don't take forever to make. I save the long ones for the weekends.
In the front of her book is a warm introduction and a small list of ingredients that she always keeps on hand. I found that to be very useful. I went to the grocery store and bought the staple items and some of the things I saw while skimming through the recipes. What I love is that I can come home from work and if I haven't been shopping in a while, I can always whip something up with little more than the staple items and the dishes still look beautiful and taste great too!
Giada offers some background to each recipe and I think that's a nice touch. Overall her book is easy to follow, has fantastic recipes and has proven to be the only one I use. Now I just have to getthe other books and I'll be all set!
love it March 6, 2008
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well i bought this book for a friend for christmas she is a newly wed and she love giada she absolutly it
I love Giada!!! March 4, 2008
Another great cookbook from my favorite Cooking Network star. Her recipes are elegant, easy, healthy--and delicious. You just can't go wrong with Giada De Laurentis!
 Excellent chicken piccata, disappointed on the lasagne February 29, 2008
I've had a mixed experience with this cookbook. So far I've made 2 recipes: Classic Italian Lasagne and Chicken Piccata, one turned out well and the other wasn't impressive.
My mom and I decided to stray from our usual lasagne recipe and try the one in this book. As we started making the sauces from scratch and preparing the fillings we realized that the recipe was a bit more work than we anticipated. I had expected "Everyday Italian" to refer to meals that could be prepared on a weeknight with a reasonable amount of work, but this was more effort than I would do on a "regular night". Once we made it, I wasn't all that impressed with the flavor, either. Since it calls for bechamel sauce (which we had to make from scratch, by the way), it was too rich for me. I think everyone has their own idea of what lasagne should taste like and maybe this just wasn't mine. I probably won't be making that one again.
Giada did redeem herself with the Chicken Piccata recipe, though. It was easy enough to prepare that I was surprised at how delicious it turned out! Very elegant and yet very simple. It is definitely a candidate for serving to guests.
One thing that did bother me a bit was the recipe for prosciutto-wrapped breadsticks - it calls for refrigerated breadstick dough (like Pillsbury!) Somehow I just didn't think that fit into a cookbook that has recipes for a zillion "made-from-scratch" pasta sauces.
Overall, I'll be keeping this cookbook for the chicken piccata recipe and I may try some of the other similar recipes. I'm not expecting to love every recipe in the book, though.
 One of Giada's cookbooks--a few brief comments. February 23, 2008
If you want to expand your cookbook library and must add one of Giada's cookbooks to your shelf, then (in my opinion) you may want to look into Giada's other cookbook called "Giada's Family Dinners". The reason I say this is because I think that the recipes in Giada's other book (FAMILY DINNERS) has tastier recipes.
In this cookbook,instead, Giada tries to add to her basic repertoire, but most of the recipes included (in this book in review) seem boring to me. Either that, or even bizarre,--- such as her cranberry raviolis (which sound pretty awful).
As previous commentators stated, I got tired of looking at more and more photos of Giada, and less and less photos of the recipes' steps. I would have preferred if Giada had included photos of "how to" steps, or even photos of the recipes' layout , such as the step-by-step photos shown in THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF FOOD, (by another author,not Giada).
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