The Lost Ravioli Recipes of Hoboken: A Search for Food and Family
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| Rating | : | 4.33 (535 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0393334236 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 352 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-03-09 |
| Language | : | English |
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Laura Schenone is the author of The Dogs of Avalon, the James Beard Award–winning A Thousand Years Over a Hot Stove and The Lost Ravioli Recipes of Hoboken. She writes for Saveur, New Jersey Monthly, and other magazines. She lives in New Jersey with her family and dog Lily.
90 illustrations. A Newsday Best Cookbook of 2007: can a recipe change your life? A quest for an authentic dish reveals a mythic love story and age-old culinary secrets. James Beard Award-winning author Laura Schenone undertakes a quest to retrieve her great grandmother's ravioli recipe, reuniting with relatives as she goes. Schenone discovers the persistent importance of place, while offering a perceptive voice on immigration and ethnicity in its twilight. Along the way, she gives us the comedies and foibles of family life, a story of love and loss, a deeper understanding of the bonds between parents and children, and the mysteries of pasta, rolled into a perfect circle of gossamer dough. In lyrical prose and delicious recipes, Schenone takes the reader on an unforgettable journey from the grit of New Jersey's industrial wastelands and the fast-paced disposable culture of its suburbs to the dramatically beautiful coast of Liguriathe family's homelandwith its pesto, smoked chestnuts, torte, and, most belov
Hakim said so good i bought a copy for my mom!. i used to help my nonni make ravioli when i was a little tyke so the memories are all there waiting for meand boy do they come flooding back when reading this great bookand mom loved it so much she recommended it to a cousin, so i bought on for her cousin too. great memoir wrapped around a food/recipe book - so it's made like good ravioli.. "Wonderful journey!" according to Christine A. Massetani. This was a wonderful story. I enjoyed her journey through family traditions and memories to the search that took her to Italy. Really a very good read. I first read the book on my kindle then had to purchase the hardbound as I wanted to fully enjoy the pictures and the recipes.. odd but wonderful michael saitta This is one of the oddest books I have ever read and I recommend it to anyone -not just food lovers. It kept me facinated until the end. One of those books which enlightens one to the small but exciting adventures people can find themselves caught up with. You don't have to be a movie star or run for president to find some exciting things in your own life. Laura Schenone did this and brought the reader along with her. I don't know this lady but it would be fun having her for a neighbor - especially for Christmas ravioli.
In this marvelous family memoir, which considers the immigrant experience from the vantage of food, Schenone, longing for an inner life where advertising cannot reach, sets off on an idealistic quest to reclaim the ravioli recipe that her Genovese great-grandmother brought with her at the turn of the last century to New Jersey, where the dish abruptly changed, breaking with tradition. All rights reserved. And yet for Schenone (the James Beard Award–winning A Thousand Years over a Hot Stove) their taste encapsulates an entire domestic history and the promise of happiness, however fleeting. . Her fierce honesty and relentless questioning (at what point is this an egotistical labor?), skillful han