Chris Bianco

Bianco:Pizza,Pasta and Other Foods I Like
by Chris Bianco
2017
Eco
4.5 / 5.0

Chris Bianco is known for his pizza dough, but he also makes amazing salads, sandwiches, main dishes, veggies and desserts. This is a great collection of all types of dishes, with easy to follow instructions.
Several dishes I plan on attempting:
Brussel Sprout Slaw
Tagliatelle with Lemon
Pasta e Fagoli
Polpettone.
His desserts look really good....Lemon Cookies and Apple cake.
With so many to chose from, plan your next meal with Bianco!… (mehr)

A good cookbook should inspire a person to cook. Perhaps the very attitude of Bianco turned me off from the start after he recommended the reader make friends with their local wheat grower to get access to fresh-made flour. That's nice. Nice, and not the slightest bit realistic. I feel like I'm splurging when I get King Arthur Bread Flour.

Reading through, there's a strong sense that Chris Bianco is an excellent cook who loves food. I'd eat in his restaurants for sure. But I found very few of these recipes were ones I'd want to attempt at home. It didn't help that many recipes did not have a photograph, which is a must to me; I read the ebook so I don't know if this is a problem with the print edition as well. The existing photographs are lovely, though. It just needs more, which is the feeling I was left with overall: I wanted more, and the book didn't deliver.… (mehr)