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Amarcord: Marcella Remembers
Marcella Hazan
The food publishing event of the season: Beloved teacher and bestselling cookbook author Marcella Hazan tells how a young girl raised in Emilia-Romagna became America?s godmother of Italian cooking.
Gotham
October 2008
On Sale: October 7, 2008
320 pages ISBN: 1592403883 EAN: 9781592403882 Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Memoir
The food publishing event of the season: 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�d eventually have her own cooking schools in New
York, Bologna, and Venice. There she would 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�some so devoted they�d name their daughters
Marcella. Her fans will be as surprised and delighted by how
this all came to be as Marcella herself has been.
Marcella begins with her early childhood in Alexandria,
Egypt, where she broke her arm. After nearly losing the arm
to poor medical treatment, she was taken back to her
father�s native Italy for surgery. There the family would
remain. Her teenage years coincided with World War II, and
the family relocated temporarily to Lake Garda� not
anticipating that it would be one of the war�s greatest
targets. After years of privation and bombings, Marcella was
fulfilling her ambition to become a doctor and professor of
science when she met Victor, the love of her life. They
married and moved to New York City. Marcella knew not a word
of English or�what�s more surprising�a single recipe. She
began to attempt to re-create the flavors of her homeland.
She took a Chinese cooking class in the early �60s with
women who asked her to teach them Italian cooking, and she
began to give them lessons. Soon after, 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, now eighty-four,
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 humorous, sometimes bizarre
twists and turns that brought her love, fame, and a chance
to change the way we eat forever.
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