Amarcord : Marcella Remembers

by Hazan, Marcella (Author)

• ISBN13: 9781592404896
• ISBN10: 1592404898
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-10-06
• Publisher: Gotham

Summary

Beloved teacher and bestselling cookbook author Marcella Hazan tells how a young girl raised in Emilia-Romagna became America’s godmother of Italian cooking Widely credited with introducing proper Italian food to the English-speaking world, Marcella Hazan is as authentic as they come. Raised in Cesenatico, a quiet fishing town on the northern Adriatic Sea, she’s eventually have her own cooking schools in New York, Bologna, and Venice and teach students from around the world to appreciate and produce the food that native Italians eat. She’d write bestselling and award-winning cookbooks, collect invitations to cook at top restaurants, and have thousands of loyal students and readers. When Marcella met the love of her life, Victor, they married and moved to New York City. She knew not a word of English or—what’s more surprising—a single recipe. She longed for the flavors of her homeland and attempted to re-create them. One day Craig Claiborne invited himself to lunch, and the rest is history. Amarcordmeans I remember” in Marcella’s native Romagnolo dialect. In these pages, Marcella looks back on the adventures of a life lived for pleasure and a love of teaching. Throughout, she entertains the reader with stories of the twists and turns that brought her love, fame and a chance to change the way we eat forever.

Author Biography

Recipient of two Lifetime Achievement Awards (from the James Beard Foundation in 200 and the IACP in 2004), and a knighthood from her own country, Marcella Hazan is the author of six classic cookbooks published over the past thirty- five years.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. x
Alexandria and Cesenatico 1931-1937	p. 1
Cesenatico, La Comitiva 1940	p. 9
The War 1940-1945	p. 19
Home Again 1945	p. 39
Out of the University, into Love and Marriage 1949-1955	p. 47
On to the New World 1955-1962	p. 67
Back to the Old World 1962-1967	p. 91
Back to the New World 1967-1970	p. 115
A Book Born Twice and Twice Reborn 1971-1980	p. 135
A Funny Thing Happened 1973-1975	p. 147
Bologna 1975-1987	p. 161
Other Worlds 1984-1992	p. 189
How Not to Get Rich 1972-1993	p. 209
Venice 1978-1995	p. 223
My Three Graces 1963-1999	p. 261
Parting with Knopf 1975-1993	p. 271
Leaving Venice 1993-1999	p. 281
In Appreciation	p. 293
Index	p. 297
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