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.

You don't have to be a fan to enjoy this book, but it helps! Different characters, from Carmela to Artie Bucco to Paulie's Nucci, get their chapters of food specialities. Food topics range from Sunday dinner to grilling on the bbq to Italian pastries. And the show's famous Baked Ziti is here, too.

Delicious and authentic Italian recipes

Fun cookbook for any fan of the show. Now I just need to find a strip club like Tony's and I'm set.

Great, easy-to-cook Eye-talian food.

You knew it was bound to happen - being the Sopranos fan that I am - I want to recommend this cookbook. Intermingled with yummy Italian recipes are snippets of advice from the main mobsters of the show - talking smack, talking etiquette, and just talking about food. Yum-O!

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This is a good, solid Italian-American cookbook (mostly recipes from Southern Italy). It was enjoyable reading for a fan of the show, but even if you aren't, the recipes are first-rate. The way they're laid out, explained, and annotated make them very easy to follow. There are only a few clinkers in there and that's totally subjective on my part. You might love what I don't like.
Supposedly, all the recipes are from Avellino, a little town in southern Italy--and who am I to argue?
Whatever the case, you'll enjoy it.

Good recipes: cook like Artie, eat like Tony and feel like a member of the Family

This cookbook helped me to make the best ziti in my life. All the recipes are simply amazing and the stories from the main characters give you better understanding of the Italian cuisine. Strongly recommend to grab a bottle of Italian wine (Ruffino wine will be the best choice if you know what I mean ;) and make your best meal using the recipe from this cookbook.

There are some awesome authentic recipes in here, although the narrative style is a little clunky and breaks the 4th wall in frankly bizarre ways, it did add a little bit to the thematic-ness of the book.

interesting mix of stories and recipes

Recipes that are simple and good for every day. Family favourites are the minestra-escarole and little meatballs soup,'Shcarole and Beans soup,and what have become staple dishes for our company on New Years' Day - Quail Sinatra style and Tiramisu.