2009 has been a great year for cookbooks and we've been doing our best to share as many of them with you here at Cook the Book, but even spotlighting a book a week can't cover them all. We've got quite a backlog of incredible books so for the next two weeks we are going to amp up our cookbook coverage with additional recipes geared towards entertaining. La Cucina was put together by the Italian Academy of Cuisine as a way to preserve regional Italian cooking at a time when food culture is rapidly becoming homogenized. With over 2,000 recipes from all over Italy, La Cucina is the most comprehensive book on Italian cuisine to be translated into English.... More