Amarcord, Marcella remembers : the remarkable life story of the woman who started out teaching science in a small town in Italy, but ended up teaching America how to cook Italian

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Amarcord, Marcella remembers : the remarkable life story of the woman who started out teaching science in a small town in Italy, but ended up teaching America how to cook Italian

Alternate title:

Marcella remembers

Author:

Hazan, Marcella, author.

Summary:

General Note:

Includes index.

Physical Description:

xi, 307 p. : ill., map. ; 23 cm.

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Personal Subject:

Subject Term:

Cooking, Italian -- History -- 20th century.

Italian American women -- Biography.

Women immigrants -- Biography.

Italian Americans -- Biography.

Publisher:

Gotham Books

Publication Date:

2009

ISBN:

9781592404896

Publication Information:

New York : Gotham Books 2009.

Call Number:

927 HAZAN

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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.

Amarcord means "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 Notes

Marcella Hazan was born Marcella Polini in Italy on April 15, 1924. She received a doctorate in natural sciences and biology from the University of Ferrara. She was a newlywed when she moved to New York City in 1955. She taught herself how to cook and eventually became a cooking teacher and a cookbook author. She embraced simplicity, precision and balance in her cooking. Her books include Amarcord: Marcella Remembers and The Classic Italian Cook Book: The Art of Italian Cooking and the Italian Art of Eating. She died on September 29, 2013 at the age of 89.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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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