The Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking

If this were the only cookbook you owned, neither you nor those you cooked for would ever get bored.Nigella Lawson

Has yet to be bettered . . . my copy is splattered with gnocchi, tomato sauce, gravy and oil, but I wouldn't replace it for the world. It does what it says on the tin, and more.Kate Colquhoun, The Best 50 Cookbooks, Independent

Brilliant.Heston Blumenthal

There are dozens of Italian cookbooks on the market, but The Essentials Of Classic Italian Cooking is the only one you need to buy. No glossy photos; just 700 pages of wonderful recipes and instruction in basics such as bread-making. And all with the kind of detailed teaching left out of books that give more space to pictures than to text. A classic.The Guardian