Cooking with My Sisters: One Hundred Years of Family Recipes, from Italy to Big Stone Gap
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| Rating | : | 4.30 (664 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B01CY36WLG |
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| Number of Pages | : | 222 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-08-16 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
From Adriana Trigiani, the beloved New York Times bestselling author of All the Stars in the Heavens and The Shoemaker’s Wife, comes this collection of delicious and accessible family recipes curated by Trigiani and her four sisters—includes a new foreword and afterword by the author, as well as new recipes and photos.Filled with dozens of recipes, many of which are inspired by the sisters’ Italian-American roots, this beautiful book goes beyond cooking instructions and food photography to reveal the stories behind treasured family recipes that have been passed down from generation to generation. Cooking has always been at the heart of the Trigiani family and has often marked memorable milestones from weddings to births to holidays and other special occasions. Adriana Trigiani and her sisters had the genius to unite a Southern sensibility with Italian cooking, and the stories of the Trigiani family alone are worth the price of admission." - Pat Conroy"My mama is from Sicily, my daddy is from Louisiana; Adriana's collection of Southern-style Italian American recipes and stories is as familiar to me as a family album. This just about sums up Cooking with My Sisters."- New York Daily News. This collection fills the heart as full as th
“Cooking with My Sisters is the best Italian cookbook ever written by women from the American south. Adriana Trigiani and her sisters had the genius to unite a Southern sensibility with Italian cooking, and the stories of the Trigiani family alone are worth the price of admission.” (Pat Conroy)“This collection fills the heart as full as the stomach! Mangia, y’all!” (Rachael Ray)“Fabulous … When a bestselling novelist, her four sisters and their mother tie on their aprons and put their heads together to write a cookbook, chances are it’ll be filled with warm reminiscences, family stories and plenty of old-world recipes.” (New York Daily News)
She wrote and directed the film version of her novel Big Stone Gap, which was shot entirely on location in her Virginia hometown. She is co-founder of the Origin Project, an in-school writing program that serves more than a thousand students in Appalachia. She lives in Greenwich Village with her family.. Adriana Trigiani is the bestselling author of 17 b