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I friggin love this book. It was life changing. Really! Before this book, I cooked at home a lot but only had a few basic recipes and methods of preparing food that I stuck to, and supplemented with frozen dinners when I got bored of it all. Most of the cookbooks I'd encountered were like textbooks... pretty dry, small print, small illustrations (half a page sometimes, if you were lucky) everything kinda tightly crammed together in a thick tome. But The Sopranos Family Cookbook is a *novelty* cookbook with lots of space to fill. Here, each recipe gets its own page, with large print, easy-to-follow directions, and pictures that will make your stomach grumble with anticipation. Recipes get grouped together with different characters from the show, and after some regular usage, you'll mentally link recipes to character sections and be able to find the page you're looking for in seconds. The book also gives good advice about where to cut corners, as should be the case with any wiseguy-themed book. You'll know when you should go with canned food, and when you should make it yourself. I'd like to someday try making all the recipes in this book, but currently I've only made about half, with meals like Pork Chops with Vinegar Peppers becoming a monthly staple for me. I now also have practice, skill, and a courage to try unusual recipes which has carried me on to different cookbooks. I owe all the variety in my current diet (and the almost total disappearance of frozen meals) to this Family cookbook... and hopefully the Family doesn't come to collect on that sizable debt any time soon.
