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| Fantastico!: Modern Italian Food | 
 enlarge | Author: Gino D'acampo
Publisher: Kyle Cathie
Category: Book
List Price: £14.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 8104
Media: Paperback
Pages: 160
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.4
Dimensions (in): 9.9 x 8 x 0.7
ISBN: 185626744X
EAN: 9781856267441
ASIN: 185626744X
Publication Date: October 18, 2007
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Very good italien food December 4, 2008
This is my first ever review on a book as I am simply not a good writer but for this book I have to.
There are so so many books on my shelves, certainly from my home country Austria but Gino's Fantastico has a special place as it gets so many time used.
The dishes are very easy to do, mounthwatering, creativ and realy delicious. I love 'Figs and soft Cheese Rolled in Pharma Ham' or 'Baked Aubergines with Spinach and Pecorino' and my 6 year old son loves 'Crispy fillet of Salmon with Cherry tomato and Anchovy Sauce'.
All ingredients are easy to shop for and the list is short for one dish.
I do love Gino's comments to every recipy and I even read them because they are very funny and entertaining.
Certainly getting his second book which I just discovered. Its out since Oct 08 and I did not know about it!!!
 Hit & Miss October 20, 2008
Of all the cookery books I've owned, this is possibly the most used so far. This is probably down to some very nice, simple recipes which are in it such as the smoked salmon with peas & pasta bows (we like that one a lot) & the chicken with marsala & dill sauce (I cooked that for my gf & she loved it).
Admittedly there has been a hiccup in the form of the chicken with pizza sauce recipe which my gf made her parents one time, it was a huge disaster & tasted like chicken in chopped tomatoes & nothing else, plus the chicken took much more time to cook than it was said which was a problem as she had limited time. Also I have to agree with another reviewer on Gino's rules, we cook together sometimes & we have fun doing it so sorry Gino for wanting to have fun cooking.
It's a book I like a lot so I'd give it an 8 out of 10, I noticed Gino has another book out around this time so I think I will be getting that too in the near future.
Fantastico! August 12, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Gino's book demonstrates how simple it is to produce excellent italian cooking very easily. All the ingredients are easy to get and use. It's good to see that he doesn't just focus on the traditional pasta dishes, but brings a wide variety of mediteranean flavour to your kitchen. I particularly love his endorsemment of tinned tuna & salmon - no filleting or gutting. Great and easy to use with flavoursome recipes. Fantastico!!!
Good recipes but strange rules August 12, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I bought the book because it looked very interesting and I particularly like Italian cuisine. When it arrived, I found that it actually contained good recipes, but that D'Acampo claims you've got to follow some quite strange rules to produce good food. While I personally would go along with his rule number five ("Concentrate on the flavour of the dish not on what it looks like") every day, I can only shake my head when I read stuff like "Cook alone. Communal cooking spoils the flavour" (Where's the fun in that? And I produced some of the most brilliant results I ever had when I was not cooking alone!) or "Never cook onion and garlic together". Apparently onions and garlic have such great flavours that they will simply spoil the taste of one another. So he claims that none of his dishes contain both, which isn't actually true as I found out while reading the book. Still, if you're looking for some nice italian recipes, you'll probably like the book. Mind though, that this is the American version but it has got a conversion table at the end of the book - pretty helpful.
Love it! August 11, 2008
I really love this book; it's got recipes to suit all occasions, and every one I've tried has turned out very well (and been delicious). I especially like the fish section, and the spaghetti rolled in aubergine recipe was fantastic. Gino's little introductions to each recipe are interesting to read, and charmingly written. I would highly recommend this cookbook.
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