Title: Cooking With Grace
Review: I have more than 600 cookbooks (it's like a disease!). The majority of them are Italian. I read them from cover-to-cover, not only for recipes but for the ethnic flavor of Italy, and of Italian-Americans who carry on our traditions. Rating a new Italian cookbook against my library is a daunting test for the book and its author. Unfortunaly, while there are some good recipes in this book, it is over-simplified and does not compare with what I consider to be the top books of this genre recently published, i.e. Biba Caggiano's Taste of Italy or Fred Plotkin's La Terra Fortuna. Ms. Pilato cooks with grace, but she needs to add a pinch more meat in her pages.
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