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Binding: HardcoverDewey Decimal Number: 641.822 EAN: 9780393061468 Edition: 1 ISBN: 0393061469 Label: W. W. Norton Manufacturer: W. W. Norton Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 384 Publication Date: November 05, 2007 Publisher: W. W. Norton Studio: W. W. Norton Editorial Review: Product Description: 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. Average Rating:
 Rating: - An Authentic Story to SavorLaura Schenone has done a masterful job. The Lost Ravioli Recipes is a great read. A family history, a mystery, a travel detective story, and it is such a wonderful trail to follow along with her. Rating: - What a Wonderful piece of writing!Let me add another glowing review to a long list of wonderful reviews of this most excellent piece of writing! I fell in love in the first chapter and keep finding more and more in the way Laura weaves the past, the present, and her relentless search together in this teriffic piece of writing, family history, detective work, and cooking! I'm sooooo jealous, Laura! Mangia! Rating: - loved it!I lived in Italy for several years, and loved to take cooking lessons. This book combined both my passion for 'family' recipes, and italian cooking. I have pulled my pasta machine back out, and am planning to write down every recipe/technique I can remember my grandmother using, so that my kids will have a memoir of their own. Rating: - excellently expounded, a search for recipes and roots Laura Schenone's book-length essay is an expertly crafted exposition of her search for family history, for barely-surviving traditions, for connections to immigrant ancestors who were strangers to her. She is, by her own admission, "obsessed" with replicating the ravioli of her great-grandmother. She longs for authenticity, for real nourishment in a world of "silver wrapped", mass produced cream cheese. She longs to know who they were, this Genovese couple who came to New Jersey from the isolated, ... Read More Rating: - Loved it all the way till the endI ate this book up and still wanted more. I am 1/2 Italian as well, the same age as the author, have 2 boys as does the author, and have what I thought was the only mixed up crazy family. I chose education and career over learning how to cook, so I loved hearing about her search. Laura write a sequel! More pictures! |
