Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Just Like an Italian Restaurant

This is one of my favorite cookbooks. When I got this book, my knowledge of cooking Italian food was pretty much limited to: boil the pasta, then pour some sauce out of a bottle. No longer! Lidia's recipes are easy to make and taste excellent.I've made several scallopini dishes and loved them all. Also, I was induced to try her recipe for Eggplant Parmesan even though I've never liked eggplant, and it's now one of my favorites.Most of the dishes are easily scaled down when cooking for one or two people. For instance, I halved the Eggplant Parmesan recipe and cooked it in a 9" square pan instead of a 9"X13" one, and it came out great.The only things that seem disappointing are the vegetable side dishes - but maybe that's because I haven't tried any. None of them cry out for me to try them, but perhaps they will surprise me and be as good as the rest of the dishes in this book.Overall, this is an excellent cookbook for the beginning Italian cook.