Cookbook Review: The Silver Spoon

The Silver Spoon cookbook

This week is Italian week. Maybe not anywhere else, apart from our little flat in East London, but I have made this declaration on receiving a copy of The Silver Spoon. This 1200+ page book is supposedly the ‘bible of authentic Italian cooking’ and has only been fairly recently translated into English. So far, I’m loving it. I wouldn’t suggest buying it for the pictures – they definitely went for an ‘authentic’ look, rather than an appetizing one. And maybe those who complain the ingredient amounts are off in this translation are right (I don’t cook exactly to recipes, so I couldn’t say), but it does has a wealth of ideas and information.