This woman is my favorite personality on food network She reminds me how special traditional foods are and how we shouldn't forget the importance of old time recipes because they keep our cultures alive. The recipes are priceless. Try one and you'll be hooked.

Giada has provided good recipes that while they show a strong American influence are still based on Italian classics. The recipes are not difficult and you will end up with good flavors in each dish. Haven't tried them all yet but would recommend all so far. If you love Italian food and didn't have an Italian nonna to teach you, I recommend you start off with this and Giada's Everyday Pasta. You'll never look back!

Not as many good recipes as Everyday Italian or Everday Pasta, but still worth owning.

Meh...same old same old...nothing inspiring here...

This was another cookbook I checked out from the library, and like Everyday Italian, I didn’t get a chance to make everything I wanted to.

This one was geared more towards family dinners and entertaining, so the servings were slighter bigger than they were in Everyday Italian. Like Everyday Italian, there were a lot of fresh herbs and veggies, and were pretty simple.

The only complaint I had was that a couple of the ingredients were what I considered to be expensive. Example: Fontina Cheese. I first looked at the cheese section, and found a little block of it for like, $10, but found a different brand of it in the deli section for around half that price. I like cheese and all but $10 for a little block of cheese…it’s not my thing. Overall, though, I did like it, and it’s something that I plan to buy at some point.

It was easy to follow, organized well, and had some good recipes in it.

Rating: 3.5 out of 5 because it’s geared towards groups, and I’m cooking for one.

I love giada!!! I am going to check this book out!!

I love this cookbook for the Italian sides. Try the broccoli florets with meyer lemon olive oil. I couldn't find meyer lemon oil, so I used blood orange infused olive oil and it was amazing. Try the same trick with spinach! Another autumnal fave is the roasted fennel with parmesan--after roasting the fennel add it as a topper to a salad. Very dramatic! They present it like this at the Martha Washington Inn in Abingdon, Va...

Quite a few simple recipes with complex flavors. I find myself going back to this book again and again.

We never liked any of the recipes we tried out of this.

Good book.

Yummy!!!

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