| Title | : | Giada at Home: Family Recipes from Italy and California: A Cookbook |
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| ISBN | : | 0307451011 |
| ISBN-10 | : | 9780307451019 |
| Language | : | English |
| Format Type | : | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages | : | 240 |
| Publication | : | First published January 1, 2010 |
Born in Italy, Giada was raised in Los Angeles by a gregarious Italian family. While her grandmother, aunt, and mother brought her up on generations-old recipes, Giada also became enamored with the bright and clean flavors of California’s abundant seasonal fruits and vegetables. Giada at Home presents recipes from both traditions, all with Giada’s signature style. She shares classic Italian recipes passed down through the years, like cheese-stuffed dates wrapped in salty prosciutto, creamy risotto with the earthy and deep flavors of mushrooms and gorgonzola, and lamb chops basted with honey and balsamic vinegar. New family favorites include grilled asparagus and melon, game hens roasted with citrus and herbs, and a sorbet made with pomegranate and mint, all bursting with fresh, vibrant flavors.
No meal would be complete without the company of family and Giada particularly enjoys bringing her loved ones together over meals. For the first time, she incorporates her go-to brunch recipes—what she cooks when setting up a feast on her back patio for everyone on weekend mornings—from Jade-approved Panini, with gooey mozzarella, luscious raspberries, and a sprinkling of brown sugar, to Todd’s favorite pancetta-studded waffles scented with cinnamon.
No matter which recipe you choose—classic or contemporary— Giada at Home makes gathering the favorite people in your life for fabulous weeknight meals and family celebrations delicious and easy.
GIADA DE LAURENTIIS is the Emmy-winning star of Food Network’s Everyday Italian, Giada's Weekend Getaways, and Giada at Home; a contributing correspondent for NBC’s Today ; and the author of four New York Times bestselling cookbooks. She attended the Cordon Bleu in Paris and worked at Wolfgang Puck’s Spago restaurant in Los Angeles before starting her own catering company, GDL Foods. Born in Rome, she grew up in Los Angeles, where she now lives with her husband, Todd, and their daughter, Jade.
Giada at Home: Family Recipes from Italy and California: A Cookbook Reviews
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5 stars.
Many tasty and very accessible recipes here.
I like that she does desserts and they all sound pretty good. I badly want to taste the Lemon and Hazelnut Tiramisu .
I was surprised and delighted by the brunch section at the end , so many possibilities. Yummy. 🤗
Giada's talent is taste and simplicity. I have print copies of her first two cookbooks and still frequently cook from them. In fact I am making her version of Chicken Piccata for dinner tomorrow night.
I am so happy that I purchased this book.
FYI: the kindle version of this book is currently $1.99 on amazon if anybody is interested. -
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 who took so much pleasure in the preparation of food - perhaps it is because she’s preparing for those she loves. Whatever the case, the recipes included in this book are family recipes form Italy and California. Some are generations old recipes (identified by being set in orange type), while others are new family recipes (set in green type). Readers will find that Giada has been happily influenced by what she finds at her local farmer’s market - beautiful seasonal fruits and vegetables. Thus, she prepares dishes that spotlight these flavors. Delightful offerings!
GIADA AT HOME begins with Appetizers followed by Soups & Sandwiches, Pasta & Grains, Meat, Poultry & Fish, Vegetables & Salads, Desserts, and Brunch.
Photographs of the dishes by Jonelle Weaver are so real that one is tempted to take a bite. Relaxed candid shots of family and friends allow readers glimpses of the happiness engendered when loved ones gather to share a meal.
For this reader Brunch is one of my favorite chapters, especially as described: “In Italy weekends are all about the leisurely lunch, a meal that can start any time after one-thirty in the afternoon and might well stretch on into the early evening.” It is the day’s “main event.”
It’s so much more than a main event, it’s a dreamed of libation if it begins with Limoncello and Blueberry Cooler and includes Mozzarella, Raspberry, and Brown Sugar Panini plus a Strawberry and Rosemary Scone or two.
Enjoy - I know you will!
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Great recipes, but not too many that I would actually cook.
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Once again, this was a cookbook used by the cooking club that I belong to which means I’ve had the great fortune to have‘ eaten and reviewed over thirty recipes. These recipes were clearly written, leaving no ambiguity for the cook. And all the members of the cooking club agreed, the recipes were all delicious! PS... can’t say enough about her Espresso Caramel Bars!!! ;)
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This is another one that was disappointing. The recipes are fine, but if I'm going to buy a cookbook I want to see photographs for all the recipes. I don't want to see all these pictures of Giada posing, Gilda's husband, baby, friends, family. I want to use the cookbook as it's intended. I enjoy some of her other cookbooks, where the emphasis is on the cooking and not the author.
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I love this thread! I am always so worried about spoiling the book that my reviews are usually just a few sentences and basically pointless
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Another cookbook I have had forever and recommend.
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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 pancetta).
It's worth remembering, when considering the purchase of this book, that the recipes here may be challenging for some American palates. Although Giada has tastefully combined American cuisine with her Italian childhood memories, the Italian flavors shine through heavily. Many of the recipes call for ingredients that may not be found outside of the nearest specialty market, almost none of the recipes utilize beef (and even the chicken and pork recipes are fairly sparing on the meat content), and there is a noticeable reliance on salty flavors in the meat and cheese dishes.
Of course, none of this makes the cookbook less worthy of purchase, but like all specialty cookbooks, I would recommend flipping through a few recipes before purchase. Having said that, this is a very nice specialty cookbook - the flavor and variety are appreciated, the writing style is quite engaging, the pictures are beautiful, and the assembly instructions are adequate (although I would prefer pictorial assembly instructions where applicable, but I suppose that's a bit much to ask from a specialty book).
NOTE: This review is based on a free Advance Review Copy of this book provided through Amazon Vine.
~ Ana Mardoll -
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 as she generously shares the traditions of her grandmother and mother married with her talent for making it current.
I've been trying some of the recipes and I can't seem to make it past the Appetizers...bruschetta, crostini and OMG the Smoked Salmon and Apple Carpaccio with Granny Smith Apples...the flavors melt together mmmmm.
The book ranges from Appetizers, Soups & Sandwiches to a first ever look at Brunch on Giada's Porch, a feature which hasn't been in previous books.
All of this is interspersed with photos of Giada with family and friends enjoying food and life in her lovely home. -
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 have to spend 2 hours scouring the grocery store for ingredients. And lets just face it i'd rather not
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I really enjoyed reading this cookbook, there are interesting comparisons made throughout the book between her traditional home style meals and her more modern updates. It is easy to see which recipes are which as they are color coded, I found many recipes that appealed both to myself (a vegetarian) and my fiance (not picky). Overall I was most impressed with the pasta section which featured plenty of classics as well as a few delicious sounding lightened up dishes many of which are vegetarian or easily adapted to being vegetarian.
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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.
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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.
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I really like most of Giada's recipes; some of them are my go-to recipes when I can't figure out what to cook for dinner. She also pays a lot of attention to presentation and thus suggests ingredients that make decorating the dish quite effortless. Love her show and love her cookbooks!
The only reason I'm not giving 5 stars is because some of her recipes ask for random items that are incredibly hard to find and/or expensive. Bummer. -
Giada at Home is a beautiful book, full of lovely images of delicious looking food. Many of the recipes are easy enough to follow... but I felt like they were a little fancy for stuff I would make at home. "Fried cheese-stuffed zucchini blossoms," what!? If I made those my hubs would be like "when did you get so fancy!?
I will absolutely take a way a few recipes from this book- like the parsley sauce and the fusilli with spicy pesto. Yum yum yum! -
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.
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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.
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i bookmarked a ton of the recipes in here (the caponata! the espresso caramel squares!), and can't wait to make them.
my only problem is that most, if not all, of these recipes aren't anything new. i counted 10+ recipes that i've seen her make on her show, and i'd wager that all of the recipes are on the food network website. -
I have two of Giada's other cookbooks, and this one is my favorite so far. The recipes look both simple and delicious...there are at least a dozen I want to make ASAP. (While I haven't actually made anything from this book yet, I have had good results with recipes from her other cookbooks, so I anticipate good results.)
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I love Giada's recipes, but I expected these to be a bit simpler... they are a bit formal for my "at home" taste.
Also, the only thing worse than watching her cook in white clothing, sans apron, is seeing photos of her daughter eating in white clothing, sans bib. Gah! -
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!
