The Lost Ravioli Recipes of Hoboken
A Search for Food and Family
Will be published approx. on 16. September 2008
Book
Paperback/Softback
354 pages
978-0-393-33423-4 (ISBN)
Description
Laura Schenone's original goal was simple enough: to find her great-grandmother's recipe for ravioli. But things get more complicated as she reunites with relatives and digs up buried family stories. Taking readers from New Jersey's industrial wastelands and fast-paced suburbs to the coast of Liguria-homeland of her ancestors and of ravioli-The Lost Ravioli Recipes of Hoboken is a story of the comedies and foibles of family life, of love and loss, of old homes and new, and of the mysteries of pasta, rolled on a pin into a perfect circle of gossamer dough.
Reviews / Votes
"This is [a] feast for the mind and the heart, as well as the palate." -- Newsweek - Peg Tyre "Lovely." -- Entertainment Weekly "Fascinating and memorable." -- Julie Kronenfel - Elle "A culinary detective story, a family confessional, and a moving meditation on assimilation and authenticity." -- Vicki Hyman - Star-Ledger (New Jersey) "[A] solidly researched, lovingly written memoir-and a splendid detective story...This wonderfully intricate, rumpled, generous narrative would be a joy even without the final lagniappe of about two dozen hard-won recipes." -- Anne Mendelson - SaveurMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
90 illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
500 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-393-33423-4 (9780393334234)
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E-Book
10/2008
W. W. Norton & Company
€18.49
Available for download
Person
Laura Schenone is the author of the James Beard Award-winning A Thousand Years Over a Hot Stove and The Lost Ravioli Recipes of Hoboken. She lives in New Jersey with her family and dog Lily.