Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking

Madhur Jaffrey Marcella Hazan takes you by the hand. For example, if you are going to make a risotto she tells you what rice to buy. (Source)

Nigel Slater It’s not beautiful writing; I don’t read her for information; I don’t read her for a sense of place. I read Marcella Hazan purely for the way she writes her recipes…. There is no finer recipe writer. Her recipes are concise, they’re clear, they’re unfussy and she never leaves me in any doubt about what I’m supposed to be doing. (Source)

Ruth Rogers When people come to work at the River Café as a chef we ask them if they have read this, and if they haven’t we ask them to read it. (Source)