Sunday, January 1, 2012

new cookbook!

For Christmas, Dan gave me a new cookbook: The Silver Spoon, by Phaidon Press.

This is the essential authentic Italian cookbook. It does for Italian cuisine what Julia Child did for French cuisine; making extraordinarily wonderful food completely do-able for just a normal person. (like me! or you, for that matter!)

Opening to the first page, this is what I saw::


...and I couldn't agree more.

I haven't even made a single recipe from this book, and already I'm pretty excited. (now if I could only get over this nasty sinus thing so I'll have the energy to hurry up and cook!!!!!)