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Amarcord: Marcella Remembers | 
| Author: Marcella Hazan
Publisher: Gotham
Category: Book
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Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 45299
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 320
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 6.2 x 1.2
ISBN: 1592403883
Dewey Decimal Number: 641.50922
EAN: 9781592403882
ASIN: 1592403883
Publication Date: October 7, 2008
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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 Americas 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, shed eventually have her own cooking schools in New York, Bologna, and Venice. There she would teach students from around the world to appreciateand producethe food that native Italians eat. Shed write bestselling and award-winning cookbooks, collect invitations to cook at top restaurants, and have thousands of loyal students and readerssome so devoted theyd 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 fathers 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 wars 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 orwhats more surprisinga 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 Marcellas 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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who are fans of Hazan's cookbooks, and who like autobiographies, will relish this story December 15, 2008
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Marcella Hazan has been credited with introducing Italian food to the English-speaking world, but until now she's received relatively little attention for her personal life. Her memoir begins in Egypt, where she spent her early childhood, follows her unexpected journey back to family roots in Italy at a young age, and follows her initial ambition to become doctor and professor of science before she marries, moves to America, and began taking cooking lessons to re-create the taste of her homeland. Any who are fans of Hazan's cookbooks, and who like autobiographies, will relish this story of how she evolved to become a world-class cook and teacher.
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