| The Silver Spoon | 
 enlarge | Creator: Various Contributors
Publisher: Phaidon Press Ltd
Category: Book
List Price: £24.95
Buy New: £15.68
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Avg. Customer Rating:  38 reviews
Sales Rank: 470
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 1264
Shipping Weight (lbs): 6.2
Dimensions (in): 10.7 x 7.6 x 2.4
ISBN: 0714844675
Dewey Decimal Number: 641
EAN: 9780714844671
ASIN: 0714844675
Publication Date: October 14, 2005
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
Condition: Brand New. Shipped from UK Mainland. Delivery is usually 2 - 3 working days from order by Royal Mail, International Delivery is by Airmail.
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 Seriously Overrated July 3, 2006
26 out of 74 found this review helpful
2000 useless recipes and almost 3 good ones. Bland food horrible photography (the duck terrine looks remarkably like an upturned tin of dog food). If you like food and cookery do not buy this book - buy a River Cafe book or something inspiring and not this straight out of the 1970's. Why do they have 20 recipies for curry? Bread and butter pudding? Chamois? And no information on what dishes to serve with what. A total waste of time. Food has moved on from here.
 Excelento May 22, 2006
21 out of 25 found this review helpful
Never mind the Italian part. This is an allround Grade A1 book. It does contain practically all the info you'll ever need in a kitchen. It is a reference book. It is a recipe book. It is dirt cheap with perhaps 5-8000 recipe's (who's counting?). And it gives recipe's to practically everything you can find attached to animals or plants.
My girlfriend is a qualified cook from one of the snaziest French restaurants in Copenhagen. She can make sauces that makes cracks in the porcelain, and she agrees 100 per cent.
 Must have...but could be improved May 20, 2006
12 out of 16 found this review helpful
The silver spoon is a mine of recipes, some having ingredients you might never have considered (like brain!). The recipes are simple and there is bound to be something in there you will like :)
however one bad thing i have to point out is that the contents page could be more detailed because of the size of this book. Also the index is confusing as it goes from english to italian in places and some recipes are indexed twice (once in english and again in italian)
 Does not live up to the hype. April 17, 2006
19 out of 47 found this review helpful
An Italian friend advised that I buy this book if I want to cook authentic Italian food. They raved over it. I was so keen to try some of the recipes. I have cooked at least 10 different recipes from this book and, unfortunately, have found them to be quite bland. One minestrone recipe I had to throw away - It was so flavourless and I was not able to rescue it. I will persist though as there are over 2000 recipes in this book and so odds are that there have to be some good ones. However, based on my current experience, I would NOT recommend this book. I would, however, recommend "100 ways to be pasta" - written by 2 women who run an Italian restaurant in Italy - scrummy!!!!
The only cook book you will ever need April 9, 2006
15 out of 18 found this review helpful
Forget the only Italian cook book you will ever need - this is the ONLY cook book you will ever need.The best thing is that it shows you the basics on how to cook everything. It is especially good for vegetables giving them a totally different slant to what we are used to here in the UK. Actually it is the best book I've ever bought !
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