Beautiful book, I collect cookbooks and have over 200. This book has fantastic recipes with beautiful photo's abound.. "Excellent..."...For me, a cookbook is 'excellent' if it makes me want to get up and start cooking....this one is like that..This book although soft cover, is beautiful/ large enough to keep out on coffee table if that's your thing..lolThis has to be one of the best cookbooks I have purchased. The directions are very easy to understand. I have made 3 dishes and they all have turned out wonderful. I would highly recommend this bookThis book beautifully covers the wonderful food of Italy. I find myself using these recipes all the time now, and have not had a failure yet!The photography is also beautiful, and this book showcases the diverse styles, and tastes offered from all regions of this wonderful country.This is a really nicely done Italian cookbook. I've used many of the recipes already.Quick delivery. In wrapper. Great deal.Excellent.I love this book!!!we have the whole set of these books - and they are all just VERY good cook books.recepies differ well enough - it is not the type that in one recepie they put a piece of chicken and 2 piches of pepper, and few pages later, 2 pinches of pepper and chicken....precedures are well described, they are easy to follow and produce exactly what the picture shows. resulting flavors are well balanced, interesting and tasty.from the whole series the 'food of india' is by far most favorite.I love this series of books - Ibought the Thailand book years ok and was given France for Christmas. They are like bibles of the regional cuisine. No fancy tricks or attempts to reinvent the wheel just great solid recipes for classic dishes to make again and again. I have bought a second copy to give as a gift.Excellent book, it was to replace one I had for years and lost. Special attention to the Chestnut cake ( great for celiacs ) serve with a fruit compote as a dessert. Also the recipe for Panforte - the best I've tried, make great Christmas presents. The book has other good recipes but it was worth it for these 2 alone.This book is packed with good recipes and is worth getting if only for the focaccia recipe. Don't be afraid if the dough is sloppy, stick with it as it will stick with you. Bread just like mama used to make!Really good recipes with authentic Italian flavours. Easy to follow and everything I have made out of this book has had an enthusiastic reception!