From Joey Campanaro, the lovable chef and owner of popular Little Owl restaurant in New York City!Big Love Cooking features 75 accessible recipes infused with Mediterranean flavors inspired by Joey’s Italian-American family.This is simple, authentic food, with generous servings and nourishing, shareable meals.• Includes stories from the restaurant, historical NYC photographs, and conversational … Includes stories from the restaurant, historical NYC photographs, and conversational advice
• Dishes include Little Owl Crispy Chicken, Ricotta Cavatelli with Tomato Broth, Bacon, and Fava Beans, and Brioche French Toast with Stewed Strawberries.
• Features warm, inviting photography that emulates the family-style meals
With accessible recipes and familiar ingredients, this cookbook is perfect for big family meals that will please a crowd.
Recipes include mouth-watering dishes like Littleneck Clams with Juicy Bread, Mom-Mom Pizza, and Pork Chop with Parmesan Butter Beans.
• Big Love Cooking is a return to hearty platters and heartwarming comfort food with a strong sense of place.
• Perfect for cooks interested in Mediterranean cuisine and Italian-American favorites
• A great book for the home cook that is interested in hearty, delicious Italian meals over trends
• You’ll love this book if you love cookbooks like Carmine’s Family-Style Cookbook by Michael Ronis, The Meatball Shop Cookbook by Daniel Holzman and Michael Chernow, and The Frankies Spuntino Kitchen Companion & Cooking Manual by Peter Falcinelli, Frank Castronovo, and Frank Meehan.
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This lovely cookbook was written by a New York restaurateur that not only shares restaurant favorites but also family ones. The book is imbued with a strong sense of place, with photos from the restaurant’s neighborhood and stories of some residents. The author shares some interior shots of the restaurant and his Italian family through the years. It feels like a very personal chef cookbook. The cookbook is divided into these chapters: brunch, soups and salads, vegetables, pasta, meat and poultry, fish and seafood, Sunday supper, and desserts. Certainly the pasta and Sunday supper (featuring meaty tomato gravy and all the trimmings) chapters put this cookbook squarely in Italian territory. As I don’t eat meat, I like that the author had so many recipes that didn’t have any. Plenty of vegetarian choices, which is often the case with Italian cookbooks. Throughout the book, the author has a few pages given over to mini-essays about particular food topics like how to make proper biscuits or choose meats for Sunday gravy. As this is a cookbook written by an NYC chef, some recipes are complex using some specialized ingredients that might be difficult for some of us outside of major metro areas to source. He also uses tools that are more apt to be in a chef’s kitchen than a home cook’s one, like a mandoline, a food mill, or special pots and pans. Not every recipe had a photo—and I certainly wish that more did, especially for the unusual recipes—but the photos included look so yummy that I wanted to go in the kitchen and make some. I like it when a cookbook is so inspiring. If you like chef cookbooks where they share both personal and restaurant recipes as well as appreciate Italian-inspired dishes, you may enjoy this cookbook as much as I did.
I received a free copy of this book, but that did not affect my review.
I found the recipes to be very clear and concise. I enjoyed the pictures. The stories made you feel like you were sitting around the family table. I only wish it had more recipes! I received an ARC from NetGalley and Chronicle Books for my honest review.
What a beautiful cookbook! The author, Joey Campanaro, is a celebrated chef with a restaurant called The Tiny Owl which he talks about in the book. The photographs are pictures of Italian American comfort food that makes your mouth water just looking at them!! I wish there were a photographs for every recipe!!!
The 75 recipe choices include brunch, soups and salads, vegetables, pasta, meat and poultry, fish and seafood, Sunday supper, and desserts. These great recipes include detailed step-by-step instructions. I feel like I would want to make most of the recipes on a weekend or special occasion because they are a little involved. They are doable because of the great instructions, but some of the prepwork is time consuming. Most ingredients you can find at your local grocery store.
Many of the recipes include a story which i enjoyed and gave me the feeling like i was talking to an old friend. The one recipe I made from the cookbook was Italian Wedding Soup which has always been a favorite of mine. There were a few twists in this recipe that I had never tried before, like adding an egg in the soup and forming the meatballs into spoon-size servings, baking them before adding them to the soup. I was amazed at how much more flavor the soup had compared to the Italian Wedding Soup I usually make. This will now become my go to recipe!!
I would recommend this book to anybody that loves Italian food. I reviewed the digital copy, but will be buying my own copy to add to my cookbook collection!
Thank you NetGalley and Chronicle Books for the ARC of Joey Campanaro’s cookbook in exchange for my review.
Let’s just say I hope this tiny little restaurant made it through this pandemic because I can’t say enough about this cookbook. I would love to sit at a table and order some of these mouth watering recipes. I am so absolutely amazed and hungry after making it through this cookbook not to mention humbled.
What did I like? I’m Italian food lover at heart and the combination of recipes..pictures, and stories just make this a wonderful book. There is all sorts of tidbits and founts of information in this book that just make me want it, not to mention the mouth watering pictures. The author also includes stories of his child hood and how the Little Owl restaurant came to be. How to butcher a chicken, and a cute song playlist. I just fell in love with this cookbook and added to my wish list on amazon! It doesn’t come out until September but I can’t wait to try the recipes.
Would I recommend or buy? YES…YES…YES. It’s on my buy list and I’m definitely getting a copy. All the recipes look delicious and it’s a five star recommendation too. The stories pull me in, the recipes look amazing, and given the fact that you could potentially visit the restaurant just makes this a winning combo. I just fangirl it… looks positively divine.
Thoughts for the author? I would love a signed copy! I rarely get an author to respond to my reviews but it does occasionally occur …but this is one author I would love a copy from. Five amazing cookbook stars. Loved everything about it. Thanks so much for a sneak peek! Thanks to the publisher for an ARC to read and give my honest opinion!
This whole book felt like a homemade meal at grandma’s house. It’s warm & inviting, a lot of food to share & eat, everyone telling stories. I love it! The recipes are easy to follow, there’s pictures, and there’s a variety of dishes to choose from. Thanks to Chronicle Books and NetGalley for an ebook ARC. This is my honest review.