Product Description

Move over pasta and pizza, here come panini, bruschetta, and crostini! The world of sandwiches, Italian style. These heavenly bread-based creations include recipes for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, antipasti, party foods, and delicious desserts and indulgences for any time of the day.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #38343 in Books
• Brand: Harper Collins
• Published on: 2002-08-01
• Released on: 2002-07-30
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 144 pages

From Library Journal
La Place is the author of Verdura (LJ 3/15/91), a lovely book on Italian vegetables, and coauthor with Evan Kleiman of several Italian-inspired cookbooks, including Cucina Rustica (LJ 3/15/90). Here she offers a fun, appealing, and mouth-watering collection of sandwiches and both simple and elegant bruschetta and crostini, the Italian open-faced toasts and canapes. A nice companion to Carol Field's book on merende ("snacks"), Italy in Small Bites (LJ 9/15/93), this is recommended for most collections. [BOMC HomeStyle alternate.]
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Booklist
La Place's fifth Italian recipe collection is all about sandwiches. Nothing is complicated; simply use the freshest of breads, vegetables, and proteins to capture the authentic flavors of these snacks, desserts, and lunchtime meals. Her more than 75 recipes are differentiated by size of bread: panini, bruschetta, and crostini. Sweets are not neglected. Inventive, imaginative, and, yes, charming. Barbara Jacobs

About the Author
Viana La Place is the author of numerous books on Italian cooking, including Desserts and Sweet Snacks, Rustic Italian Style, and Panini, Bruschetta, Crostini. She lives in San Francisco and spends part of each year in Italy.

Customer Reviews

not quite what I expected.....
Although the book has a great many recipes, what I was mostly looking for were recipes for grilled panini. Given the title, I was hopefull. There were precious few of those in the book, maybe 3?, so I was disappointed. Also, an earlier review mentioned the repetition of recipes in the book, and I'd have to agree. I would have liked more variety. However, the book does have an appeal and a charm and if you're not looking strictly for panini it's quite good.

Great for Sandwhiches, Not for Panini Presses
I purchased this book when I got my Cuisinart Griddler. This book has great ideas for sandwiches, bruschetta and crostini, but as a previous reviewer noted, not many of the sandwhich recipes are for a panini press. Now you can certainly press each of the recipes if you want, but clearly that is not what the author intended.

If you are lookging for a panini press book, this book could be a starting point, just change some of the breads and press away. I wouldn't recommend it for someone who is looking for a true panini press cookbook.

A blessed birthday gift
When my sister, Laurie, gave this to me for my birthday, a whole new world opened up to me. I had always been a fan of sandwiches, but this has bologna and cheese beat. Hands down. Every recipe from this book (that I've tried) is a winner. I constantly refer to it when I have particularly fresh tomatoes, greens, seafood, prosciutto, cheese or artisan bread. I especially appreciate Ms. LaPlace's emphasis on very fresh, organic ingredients and free-range poultry products. The delicious little bites produced from these pages always elicit compliments from guests and family alike. BUY THIS BOOK! You'll never regret it!