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The Lost Ravioli Recipes of Hoboken
Laura Schenone
A Search for Food and Family
W. W. Norton
November 2007
On Sale: November 5, 2007
384 pages
ISBN: 0393061469
EAN: 9780393061468
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Memoir
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. 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
Liguria—the family's homeland—with its pesto, smoked
chestnuts, torte, and, most beloved of all, ravioli, the
food of celebration and happiness. 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. 90
illustrations.
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