The Frugal Gourmet Cooks Italian: Recipes from the New and Old Worlds, Simplified for the American Kitchen

I aboslutely LOVE this book! It has many of the great italian recipes I grew up with and I use it as a guide all the time. My favories (by favorites I mean they are EXCELLENT recipes!) that you must try if you own this book- 1) Capanota on page 64 - to die for and you can make multiple dishes after you make the basic recipe (I double or triple it) then go to page 156 for Spaghettini Capanata! , Penne with Light Cream and Spinach and Focaccia to name a few.. Its one of those books that EVERYTHING you make.. you and everyone you feed Loves it! Great explantions and comments before each recipe.. oh.. don't forget the Baccala Salad! too many to mention.

The narrative sections were very much in the same vein as Jeff's "down to earth" teaching style on the series. However, the recipes themselves seems to be a bit tricky for a novice as myself. Interesting and entertaining book just the same. Would be interested in the other works published.

Sixteen pages of recipes in color.