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Big Night: A Novel with Recipes Author: Joseph Tropiano $9.85 |
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Editorial Review:
Set during the early 1950s, this story of love and linguini, purity and compromise--soon to be a major motion picture from MGM--takes a poignant and pointed look at Old World vs. New World values and provides a rueful assessment of the American Dream. In a New Jersey town, two Italian immigrant brothers stuggle to keep their restaurant afloat. Includes recipes.
Big Night was the loveliest cinematic surprise of 1996, a small, delightful comedy about two brothers who hope to turn their new Italian restaurant into a successful business. Joseph Tropiano, who co-wrote the movie, has not written a conventional screenplay or a standard "novelization." Instead, he has turned his story into a compelling novel. Narrated by the brother-protagonists, the book is a wonderful companion to the movie, but also stands beautifully on its own. As a special treat, Tropiano introduces each of the novel's eleven chapters with a recipe for one of the dishes that appears in the movie!
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 2.0 / 5.0 
review of Big Night novel and recipes:
I was expecting more in the way of recipes with this book. Many of the wonderful dishes from the "big night" dinner were not in the book, including the spectacular Timpano. That was a disappointment. I would not recommend purchasing the book if you want to find recipes for the items in the movie dinner.
TIMPANO:
I have not read the book, however; the Timpano is in a cookbook by Tucci and Tropiano among others titled "Cucina & Famigila"
Small.: 
"Big Night" was a wonderful movie. This book, purporting to be a novelization, is about as compelling as Cliff Notes. Moreover, it's promoted as having recipes from the film. Yeah. It includes a recipe for the scrambled eggs they cooked the next morning, but where's the recipe we really want, for the Timpano?
Disappointed in recipes chosen for the book: 
Purchased the book because of the promise of each chapter beginning with a recipe for one of the dishes from the movie. While technically this was true, I was disappointed in the recipes included in the book. Was expecting to have the recipes from the Big Feast - especially a recipe for the famous Timpano. It was glaringly missing as were recipes for just about all of the dishes served at the Big Night. On the plus side, since a book needs "a lot more words" than the visuals of a movie, there was much...more info
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