Tuesday, December 18, 2007

Dolce Italiano

Just in time for the holidays, everyone should pick up Gina DePalma’s Dolce Italiano: Desserts from the Babbo Kitchen. I’ve been plowing through these recipes and they keep getting better and better.

I started with a difficult but extremely satisfying cranberry tart for Thanksgiving that Florence Fabricant wrote about in the Times; then I tested the pine nut brittle, which was exceptional—especially when plunged into vanilla ice cream. The citrus glazed polenta cake is better than the picture makes it out to be.

The cookbook is incredibly informative with excellent instructions. I especially like the ten Italian ingredients you should know section, which masks as informational, when in reality it’s a list of ingredients that are just plain ADDICTIVE!

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