Just a consumer note: Copies of Carol Field's compendious, stupendous and
fascinating book The Italian Baker are available at hamiltonbook.com for
about $13. This is a fine book - you just have to take the salt
measurements she recommends with a grain of salt, as it were. This must
mean the book is being remaindered, so you may find copies at other
remainder places. I can't recommend this book too highly. Hamiltonbooks
also has inexpensive copies of Bernard Clayton's books.
While we're on consumer notes, if you break the base of your La Cloche,
the manufacturer (Sassafras Enterprises) will sell you just the base at a
reasonable price, with shipping included. No website that I could find,
but they do have an 800 number.
Enjoy.
And please note I have no commercial connection with either of these
places.
Jessica Weissman