Giuliano Bugialli's Classic Techniques of Italian Cooking

I started cooking at uni, hating sandwiches on retuning home late. And avolved with time. I picked up this book on a trip through Texas.

"Techniques" has recipes but also cultural framework and an amazing array of illustrated food preparation techniques. Well beyond a cookbook. To be recommended to anyone who wishes to travel beyond spaghetti and veal.

If you want to amaze everyone with your supurb culinary prowess, my advice is buy this book and make the tiramisu. I've tasted the tiramisu in every Italian restaurant in which I've ever eaten in a quest to find one as good as the one I make from his recipe, and no other even comes close.

Mr. Bugiallli writes the clearest, most authentic and historically researched recipes. This book does the same with the "how to" by giving only one or two recipes to demonstrate the technique being discussed. There are numerous photographs which some many of the techniques from beginning to end. This is a "must have" for any serious Italian cuisine cook or any cook for that matter.