Don DeMaio

 
 
Location: Barrington, RI USA
Birthday: Mar 17
 

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La Cucina Di Lidia by Lidia Matticchio Bastianich
La Cucina Di Lidia by Lidia Matticchio Bastianich
I love Lidia and love her style of cooking. This was her first book and therein lies the rub. I found this book almost inpenetrable. Great stories about her childhood in Istria, but the recipes are almost universally unusable. Octopus salad, cuttlefish sacs, etc. Not the kind of thing you'd be inclined to try in your own kitchen. Lidia is very bright, that much is obvious. But I think she'd tried too hard to impress us with her intellect. I'd try another of her titles, if I were you.