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Italian cook books with some easy to make Italian recipes with a guide to Italian cooking and Italian cuisine with a review of each Italian cook book:

An Italian Cook Book should be on every kitchen bookshelf, full of stains and well-thumbed to demonstrate its use over the years. Italian cuisine is wholesome and tasty and the Italian cook books below are thoroughly recommended by the Recipe Book Reviews team.

One More Slice

One More Slice by Leila Lindholm is a chunky Italian cook book jam packed with popular Italian recipes that are ever so easy to follow. Leila starts from scratch with all her Italian cooking recipes and then builds up to more interesting recipes. For example her first recipes are for the basics of pizza dough and tomato sauce for pizza before moving onto dozens of savoury pizza recipes such as pizza with asparagus and goat's cheese. Leila's sweet tooth shines through in pizza recipes such as pear pizza with stilton. Two particular features of the book that we love is the relaxed writing style Leila uses along with the hints and tips interspersed with the recipes. For example in the pizza section she recommends the use of a pizza stone to get a crispy pizza.

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Pasta is one of those dishes that most cooks at home think are too difficult to make and rely on packaged pasta. Leila Lindholm makes making pasta at home so easy with her pasta chapters and guides the reader through a range of styles of pasta using flour, eggs and a pasta machine so that readers will soon be making fresh pasta at home. Much like her pizza section she starts with how to make fresh pasta then gently guides the reader to make spinach pasta, then meat filled ravioli before increasing ingredients to make such Italian dishes as ricotta, lemon and chervil ravioli. The pasta sections continue with potato recipes such as fresh gnocchi and finishes with a range of Italian sauces like Sicilian tomato sauce. Other past recipes in One More Slice include bolognese, carbonara sauce and arrabbiata sauce.

Recipe Book Reviews have never sat down to Italian cooking without some form of bread on the table to break together. One More Slice guides the reader from creating sourdough through to baking flavoursome baguettes such as rosemary baguette or onion baguette. Other Italian bread recipes include levain bread, corn bread and cheese bread.

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For those with a love of Italian desserts there are chapters with cheesecake recipes such as bittersweet chocolate cheesecake. In this section Leila Lindholm starts to share her International recipes with her readers with her New York cheesecake seven ways recipe. These welcome non Italian recipes, included because they are her family's favourite meals, are interspersed throughout her classic Italian cookbook. Recipe Book Reviews were delighted to come across her homage to the 1990 David Lynch TV classic of Twin Peaks. If you haven't already guessed another clue would be FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper who was played by actor Kyle MacLachlan. Yes it can only be a twin peaks cherry pie recipe! This American theme continues with chapters dedicated to pancake and waffle recipes, bagel, chocolate brownie recipes and pecan bar recipes.

The Italian pudding recipes soon return to its native roots with a chapter dedicated to homemade ice cream which can be made by those without an ice cream maker. Just in time for the hot weather is an easy to make summer ice cream cake.

Italian cook books are not complete without a tiramisu recipe and One More Slice does not disappoint. It takes the classic Italian recipe one stage further with the tiramisu semifreddo recipe.

Tortano is a lovely treat for lunch and One More Slice has some wonderful fillings for this traditionally egg filled round bread that will transform your Italian lunches. We particularly love the flavoursome tortano with goat's cheese, honey and walnuts.

The food throughout One More Slice is not limited to large meals and includes snacks and drink accompaniments such as the mini pizzas of pizza al prosciutto e fiche.

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One More Slice has a wonderfully rustic feel throughout the book which is enhanced by colourful photos of Italian cuisine and culture by photographer Wolfgang Kleinschmidt at Villa la Casina in Tuscany. It is refreshing to read an Italian cook book that has a photo to accompany each Italian recipe. One More Slice achieves what few charming cookbooks can achieve in that it delivers easy to follow recipes using readily available ingredients. The two indexes of a recipe index and flavour index will help the home cook decide what to easily feed the family. This is a must for every home chef.

One More Slice was first published in 2011 by New Holland Publishers. The title has several meanings such as another slice of cake of another slice of pizza but refers to One More Slice being the follow up book to A Piece of Cake

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