Marcella Hazanis the author of six classic cookbooks published over the past thirty-five years. She is the recipient of two Lifetime Achievement Awards (from the James Beard Foundation in 2000 and IACP in 2004) and a knighthood from her own country.She lives in Longboat Key, Florida, with her husband, Victor, her lifelong collaborator and writing partner, himself an authority on Italian food and wine.
Every home needs at least one Marcella Hazan Italian cookbook. Her new memoir deserves to become as classic as her recipes. <br> - O Magazine <br><br> What is striking about this memoir is the quiet way that preparing food, something Hazan almost took for granted in her first 30 years, became the thing she had to offer the world. <br> - Los Angeles Times <br><br> Hazan's memoir is a terrific history of the expansive, postwar period when Americans were still learning the difference between linguine and Lambrusco, and an engaging chronicle of professional perseverance, chance and culinary destiny. <br> - Publishers Weekly <br><br>