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Este libro tiene un objetivo claro: demostrar que existe un sistema de organización del trabajo que nos permite liberar la mente de las tensiones que inhiben nuestra creatividad, y que nos hace más eficaces en todos los aspectos de la vida.

David Allen sostiene que nuestra mente tiene una capacidad limitada para almacenar información y propone una serie de fórmulas prácticas para eliminar las tensiones e incrementar nuestra capacidad de trabajo y nuestro rendimiento.

Organízate con eficacia se fundamenta en unas sencillas normas básicas de organización del tiempo, como por ejemplo la necesidad de determinar cuál es el siguiente paso a dar en cada uno de nuestros proyectos, o la regla de los dos minutos (si surge una tarea pendiente y se puede hacer en menos de dos minutos, debe hacerse inmediatamente). El sistema propuesto por Allen soluciona ansiedades y desconciertos, y nos permite transformar nuestro modo de trabajar y la manera de percibir nuestros retos cotidianos.

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A first-rate guide to prosciutto and Italian cured meats

Prosciutto (The Italian Pantry) (Italian Pantry Collection)
Carla Bardi
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Binding: Hardcover

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Prosciutto, Pancetta, Salame

Charcuterie: The Craft of Salting, Smoking, and Curing

ASIN: B000BBSOYW

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Uneasy people with nascent, health-related resolutions dreading warmed-over, calorie controlled frozen dinners should know that the Mediterranean diet, with its super-fresh foods filled with advantageous fats, is a healthy, appetizing alternative. Here to help is the Italian Pantry Collection published in North America by The Wine Appreciation Guild. The Italian Pantry:Prosciutto is filled with vibrant, full-color photographs and are written by native food writers and cooking instructors. Each distinct food is coupled with a recipe, a map pointing out its production zone, nutritional information, its constituents, uses, variations and flavor. The authors also tell the life-story, part history part lore, of Italy's four most famous foodstuffs.

It's time to put the bacon away. Carla Bardi offers up 25 of the world's tastiest cured meats, from pancetta to prosciutto di cinghiale (from wild boar) to prosciutto d'oca (from geese). Listed with each meat are the curing agents used, aging span and taste. She also covers production processes and creative ways to serve prosciutto (during the summer and fall try prosciutto crudo with kiwi fruit).

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A first-rate guide to prosciutto and Italian cured meats.......2005-05-13

My first memories of prosciutto entailed a veritable explosion in my mouth. As if hurtled in a flash to my first culinary Oz, I had the distinct realization that I was not in ham country any more. To call prosciutto "Italian Ham" is akin to calling the operas of Giuseppe Verdi "Italian Musical Plays." Neither term properly conveys the sublime we find so often when it comes to Italy.

Carla Bardi's Prosciutto comes to us from the Wine Appreciation Guild's "Italian Pantry" series: luscious fully-illustrated volumes that give us the Italian A-to-Z on olive oil, pasta, cheese, and of course prosciutto and all its cousins. In truth, the book's original title, Salumi, gives Italian food devotees a far better idea of the book's ambitious scope; the term refers to "a vast array of different meats that have been cured with salt and spices then cooked or dried." But even the term salumi fails to go the whole distance. Strictly speaking, salumi refers to any food (though usually pork) preserved in salt. The term insacatti refers to those meats packed into natural or synthetic animal gut. To do true justice to the book's subject, the author is forced to resort to the unexciting but accurate phrase "Italian deli meats." Salamis can qualify as salumi, insacatti, or both, but these distinctions are best left for the linguists. We food fanciers would rather read, salivate, and go online to book trips to Italy.

Prosciutto is the only book I know of to go into true depth on Italian deli meats. The photographs provide as much as the eye can possible absorb without having to call in reinforcements from an additional sense. Take the page on culatello, a specialty ham produced only in the Bassa Verdiana area (Giuseppe Verdi's birthplace) in Italy's matchless Emilia-Romagna region. The photograph of the string-draped, pork-filled pig's bladder after the humid curing process has mottled the skin is truly evocative; of course we get the inside shot of the meat in slices, artfully arrayed.

Parma ham, a close regional cousin of culatello, benefits from a dry curing method. Legally, it can be cured only in the region between the Taro and Baganza rivers, near the city of Parma. The pigs involved are reared indoors, subsisting largely on the whey from that other inimitable product of the city, Parmesan cheese, showing that everything in Italian cuisine depends on everything else.

In addition to the fine photography on every page-in fact the high point of all the book's prodigious color-are the dishes featured in each of the 30 recipes that make Prosciutto such a valuable find for the cookbook section. Many of the recipes are elegantly simple. Finocchiona is a Tuscan salami variant that owes its name to a healthy dose of wild fennel seeds (combined with pork and fat from a pig's jowl, red wine, salt, pepper and herbs, all stuffed into a cow's gut). The featured "Finocchiona Salad" showcases the meat on a bed of arugula, topped by fennel and Pecorino cheese. Another recipe wraps the finocchiona in cabbage leaves, simmers it in tomato basil sauce, and pairs it with Polenta. Mortadella, developed in the Italian city of Bologna, cannot be compared with the mass-produced, machine-extruded bologna (pronounced "baloney") that still hoodwinks Americans into believing they are eating food. The book's recipe for "Fried Mortadella" dips chunks of mortadella in beaten egg, then bread crumbs, before pan frying. The recipe, as are many Italian recipes, is simple; if only the ingredients were not so difficult to find. At least the photographs instruct as they seduce.

You can't eat photography, but it does motivate you to hit the icebox at least to fill the void. The gustatory mitigation is at best temporary. The sad thing about Prosciutto is that the book can only hope to cover the 25 or so general and regional categories of Italian deli meats. In real fact, every town and village in Italy boasts its own proud variant, a few produced from goose, venison, wild boar, or even horse. The producers-even if they argue about politics, automobiles and love-undoubtedly agree that these products are designed to be enjoyed without hurry. I guess it's finally time to arrange that year-long sabbatical.

Food writer Elliot Essman's other reviews and food articles are available at www.stylegourmet.com

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fun after the smoking
Deliciously done PROSCIUTTO is a gem
Delicious treats using Italy's cured meats

Prosciutto, Pancetta, Salame
Pamela Sheldon Johns
Manufacturer: Ten Speed Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 1580086179

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The craft of curing meats has been handed down through generations by Italian artisan producers who follow these same careful techniques even today. In PROSCIUTTO, PANCETTA, SALAME, best-selling author of the Italian Artisan cookbook series Pamela Sheldon Johns explores the art of preparing home-made salumi the generic term that encompasses the range of Italian-made cured meats and offers more than 40 recipes for antipasti, primi, and secondi. Featuring Grilled Shrimp and Zucchini Wrapped with Pancetta; Risotto with Grilled Sausages; and Sauteed Broccoli Rabe with Pancetta, Garlic, and Mushrooms; this artisan guide even includes instructions for preparing homemade sausage. PROSCIUTTO, PANCETTA, SALAME offers a new appreciation for the integrity and dedication that goes into every slice.

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fun after the smoking.......2007-02-06

After you make the salami, this is how to eat it. Great meal ideas, nicely presented

Deliciously done PROSCIUTTO is a gem.......2005-09-08

Beautifully produced and informative, and just as lovingly executed as a perfect slice of prosciutto on a thick slice of rye with havarti and a little onion, tomato or sweet pepper.

Nice recipes, but more. This is a gorgeous book for anyone who appreciates excellent, cured meats. Here in the U.S., people tend to think "more is better" even if it is dog food on a piece of cardboard. But, not all of us scarf down junk food all of the time; a good prosciutto is food with a simple elegance and this colorful collection captures it perfectly.

My grandfather was butcher; he smoked sausages and gave them out at the holidays to neighbors and friends. I was lucky enough to see it, taste it, learn some of it and understand the slow process of curing. It is gratifying to see PROSCIUTTO as perfectly done as it is: a wonderful memory of how well foods should be done, but in America, are often overlooked. So, when I visit the local supermarket's deli, I appreciate a smile from the nice Italian lady who knows what a little prosciutto can bring: it's a little class in a pasteurized, prefab society. You won't read PROSCIUTTO as much as absorb it. Well done!

Mark Braun, Associate Publisher
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Delicious treats using Italy's cured meats.......2005-04-13

Pamela Sheldon Johns' "Prosciutto Pancetta Salame: Cooking with the Cured Meats of Italy" is a fascinating book. It starts off with a fair amount of information that explains the intricate differences between the various kinds of cured meats of Italy. It even explains the various little regional differences, and interjects stories of specific families and villages in Italy that produce particular varieties of a product.

There were only a few things about this book that didn't impress me, so I'll get them out of the way first. One or two of the recipes didn't seem to have entirely well-balanced flavors, but that can be a matter of taste. A soup that uses dried chickpeas states that you can substitute with canned, but doesn't say how much you should use if you want to do that. Some recipes state amounts by weight and others by number of slices, which can make purchasing a little more difficult if you're purchasing for multiple recipes at once ("hmm... I need 5 ounces plus 8 slices of prosciutto"). We did try one recipe where we were pretty well convinced that the author wrote ounces but must have meant slices. These are small details, which is why I only docked a point for them, but they are details that make a cookbook more difficult to use.

That said, there is some wonderful material in this cookbook! In addition to all of the fascinating information, some of these recipes are just incredible. The aforementioned peas with prosciutto are quite good. There's a ciabatta sandwich with salame, artichokes and rosemary that's just out of this world. The same with a soup made with chickpeas, pasta and rosemary--neither chickpeas nor rosemary inherently delight me, but I just love that soup. The combination of flavors is absolutely fantastic.

Not every recipe comes with a photo, but many of them do, and the photos are quite lovely--they'll certainly make you hungry! Most of the recipes are fairly simple, meant to showcase the delicious flavors of these products rather than cover them up. Only a few require any real time or effort, and that's comparatively speaking.

In all I'm quite pleased with this cookbook. It contains some imperfections, but it's quite usable and produces delicious treats that make the most of Italy's delightful cured meats.

Parma "A Capital of Italian Gastronomy" By Giuliano Bugialli

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You will amaze your guests - must have book!

Parma "A Capital of Italian Gastronomy" By Giuliano Bugialli
Giuliano Bugialli
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: B000UP2AN0

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Giuliano Bugialli's latest book is the very first book printed by Academia Barilla. Parma-designated the culinary capital of the European Union is renowned for its unique ingredients, parmagiano reggiano and proscuitto di Parma. Giuliano Bugialli presents the food of this legendary city, dishes that have a classic simplicity and full, rich flavors. More than 120 recipes are included-antipasti, a wide array of pasta dishes, main courses based especially on veal and pork of the region, and, of course, the succulent desserts for which the city is famous. For Parma photographer Andy Ryan has contributed spectacular views of the city-its historic buildings, markets, and the surrounding countryside-as well as finished dishes and ingredients to create a sense of the richness and vitality of the culture and cuisine of this wonderful place. A luxury hardcover that makes a perfect gift. Retail price $50

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You will amaze your guests - must have book!.......2007-08-08

This book is a steal! I was trying to prepare a meal for the relative of my girlfriend - they are all stiff snobbish people from a noble italian family. I was at a loss, and I hit on this book suggested to me by the chef of the restaurant "Al Curvone" in Bologna, Italy. SInce the first meal I cooked, every dinner comes straight from this cookbook, and I managed to impress them so much they are asking me - born in New Jersey! - for advice on how to cook Italian. This book is also an exceptional conversation starter, full of marvellous pictures, will teach you much more than recipees, it's a trip inside Italian culinary culture. After reading the book, you will book your next holiday in Parma.

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Prosciutto U Uova Verdi
Dr. Seuss
Manufacturer: Giunti Gruppo Editoriale
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 880902446X

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La Quercia brings Italian art of prosciutto to Iowa with plant in Norwalk.(La Quercia LLC): An article from: Business Record (Des Moines)
Joe Gardyasz
Manufacturer: Business Publication Corp.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital
ASIN: B0009GN8S6
Release Date: 2005-08-01

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