Giada at Home: Family Recipes from Italy and California: A Cookbook Hardcover – March 30, 2010

Lovely and written well.

I’ve the details of the photos!

I've slowly become a fan of Giada and of her shows on the Food Network. When I heard a book was forthcoming based on her "Giada at Home" series, a show that I've used to draw many meals from, I immediately pre-ordered. First of all, I think she's evolved marvelously as a cook as this book demonstrates. While she does incorporate more of her California influenced cuisine, there are also plenty of classic Italian recipes which she clearly marks to distinguish one from the other. Several of the recipes have been used on multiple occasions in my household(Pea Pesto Crostini, Pasta Ponza, Caponata Panini) and one has become of my favorite go-to dishes (Spaghetti with Olives and Breadcrumbs). Also, while some ingredients aren't easy to find outside big cities, Italian food is very flexible - a point which Giada often makes on her show, pointing out acceptable substitutions to certain ingredients. This is a welcome addition to the Italian food loving home cook who likes good, unfussy food with plenty of taste.

Wish it had more recipes from show Giada Entertains !😉

Love this! I have made about 6 of the recipes and they have all turned out fantastic and I couldn't believe how easy they were. My favorite so far is the Eggplant and White Bean Crostini's. I know they don't sound that great but they were! And they were really healthy. I am actually going to make them for our appetizer party at my sister's. I am very happy with how this cookbook is overall very healthy. It has also got me into new ingredients that I don't normally cook with like fennel bulb and pancetta. It is just me and my husband so I am also very happy with how everything I have made has been good enough to eat as leftovers the next day. I highly recommend :) I'm making the chicken burgers tomorrow!

I received this a Christmas gift. Since then, my hubby and I have cooked several of the recipes in here. They have all been fantastic. I'm always pleased with how healthy AND tasty Giada's recipes are, and this cookbook doesn't disappoint. The pictures in the cookbook are great - I always like to see what the dish will look like in the end. This book is packed with excellent recipes that are full of flavor, fairly easy to cook and almost always healthy. The only downside to this cookbook is that some of the dishes call for a large number of recipes, which is always daunting for people that don't cook as often. Also, she tends to call for some ingredients that are more expensive or harder to find - but only in a few recipes. Overall, this is a great cookbook!

Very good food and love the pictures.

I bought this book naively thinking that all of the recipes from the series would be in the book but they are not. I bought it from Amazon so I could not look at the table of contents before I purchased it. Several of the recipes I really wanted were not included. I will have to print those recipes from Food Network's site. So that was really disappointing. Maybe some of those recipes are in her other cookbooks - I'll have to go to a bookstore to check the table of contents. So my advice is if you want certain recipes and plan to buy this book online, check out the book at a store before purchasing it.