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From: , NY

Joined: January 9th, 2010

Favorite cookbook: Cake Bible

Favorite recipe: Lemon Poppy Seed Pound Cake

Lemon Poppy Seed-Sour Cream Cake from Rose's Heavenly Cakes

This is Rose's signature cake ( and mine) made larger and more flavorful. This version adds sour cream to the recipe, that gives it a wonderful mouthfeel. It has a rich buttery flavor, perfumed with lemon... read more >

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Lidia's Italy: 140 Simple and Delicious Recipes from the Ten Places in Italy Lidia Loves Most

By Lidia Matticchio Bastianich, Tanya Bastianich Manuali
Knopf - 2007

This is a companion book to Lidia's PBS series Lidia's Italy. It is divided into ten chapters, each a different city in Italy. Lidia gives you some information about the region and the recipes that can be found there. Her daughter, Tanya, an art historian, gives a tour of some of the area's cultural treasures. It really is a good book to capture the flavor and feel of Italy.