(Part 2) Reddit mentions: The best italian cooking, food & wine books

A few from different regions:

Yucatán: Recipes from a Culinary Expedition for Yucatecan / Mayan food. It is the best one for this, period.

Sicilian Food

The Nordic Cookbook for Scandinavian food.

Cuisine of Hungary.

Churrasco: Grilling the Brazilian Way

Pasta with butter and cheese is a pretty common dish in Italy, the kind of thing one might just whip up at home. As the story goes, a Roman chef named Alfredo di Lelio made an extra-rich version for his wife, with 'triplo burro' (which means what it sounds like). When Alfredo later opened his own restaurant, his fettuccine al triplo burro was a big hit. His restaurant often attracted Hollywood celebrity types, who made the dish fashionable in the US too. Imitators in the US made a few changes to the recipe, and we ended up with the cream-laden sauce we call Alfredo today.

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Recipe: https://www.seriouseats.com/2017/04/how-to-make-real-deal-fettuccine-alfredo-sauce.html

Further reading: https://smile.amazon.com/Cooking-Roman-Way-David-Downie/dp/0060188928

I have this one. It's a very nice cookbook, filled with stories and explanations of the author's connection to each of the dishes. I've only made a few things out of it, but they have all been good.

These are all great starts -

http://www.amazon.com/Essentials-Classic-Italian-Cooking-Marcella/dp/039458404X


http://www.amazon.com/Lidias-Italy-Simple-Delicious-Recipes/dp/1400040361/ref=sr_1_6?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1413903918&sr=1-6&keywords=lidia+bastianich+cookbooks

http://www.amazon.com/Mario-Batali-Simple-Italian-Food/dp/0609603000/ref=sr_1_9?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1413903950&sr=1-9&keywords=mario+batali

My uncle sent me this book a while back and it has some great, simple, step by step recipes with tons of pictures.
http://www.amazon.com/Italian-Visual-Step---step-Cookbook/dp/1407590936/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1394494572&sr=8-1&keywords=frame+by+frame+italian

The Soprano's Cookbook, as well as its companion piece, Entertaining with Carmela Soprano, are both full of solid recipes.

I really dig this dish, although I do mashed potatoes instead of the grits. I've also been making the Penne with Prosciutto and Mushrooms out of this book for something like 20 years now.

One of the most well known Italian cookbooks would be La scienza in cucina e l'arte di mangiar bene however this is not the usual cooking you find in most restaurants.

I'm using Giada's Kitchen. Nothing crazy, but it was a gift from my husband a few years back and I know he will appreciate it. Plus it's only 108 recipes, so at 2-3 per week I should have no trouble doing it all.

And if you want Italian American cooking, buy this: https://www.amazon.com/Italian-American-Cookbook-Cooking-Tradition/dp/1558321667

Don't know if copyright date means much too ya...
https://www.amazon.com/Italian-Regional-Cooking-Ada-Boni/dp/1199702897

There's two of them: 1 2

4am. Lunch. Pepperoni roll made by the bakery of my local grocer.

Would it happen to be this book?

Here it is!

www.amazon.com/Luigi-Carnacinas-Great-Italian-Cooking/dp/B000BUIPRY

There are two Soprano family cookbooks, one "compiled by" Artie and the other by Carmela.

Some of the recipes are available on various blogs and pdfs of both books in their entirety are out there if you look.

Since you're asking about books in a used bookstore, let me suggest this great Italian cookbook that is out of print.

If you come across it, snap it up. It is the single most ragged and worn out cookbook in my kitchen.

http://www.amazon.com/Make-Italian-Taste-Technique-Cooking/dp/0375402268

I would get you The Sarcastic Italian Chef Cookbook (I knew that Googling 'sarcastic cookbook' would yield something!).

links to the amazon pages for reviews- Intrigue in italics(mystery) , Mankinds worst fear(sci-fi) , Smilodon(thriller) , The plight of the angels(fantasy-epic) , Wistril compleat(fantasy-short stories)