Six O’Clock Solution: Pan-seared salmon à la Giada De Laurentiis

When TV cook and restaurateur Giada De Laurentiis went back to her native Rome, it brought forth a host of memories of the family cooking from her childhood.Her eighth cookbook, Giada’s Italy (Clarkson Potter/Penguin Random House, $47), offers a feast of over 100 recipes that are both lusty and light, and writing that gives the sensation of shopping and cooking in Rome. It also includes excellent photographs by Aubrie Pick. 
The chapter called Weeknights is a gold mine of fast dinner