A review by ashponders
The Silver Spoon by Clelia D'Onofrio

4.0

As a vegetarian this tome is of slightly less use to me and mine, still country folk don't eat meat all the time so vegetables are treated at length. And regardless of my dietary proclivities, I read the whole book, picking out recipes here and there to slavishly reproduce for my friends. Many were delicious, but none were overwhelmingly delightful. Perhaps it's a defect of my palate, but once I started behaving a bit more liberal with the conceits of the recipes, things got a lot better. Overall, I'm glad I set aside a couple days this year to read a couple thousand pages about Italian cooking. I'm sure I'll still be reaching for this book whenever I have general questions regarding the thrust of certain dishes.