MARCELLA HAZAN — Marcella\S Kitchen

Macmillan. 1995. Papeback with dust jacket, 23cm. Book, Marcella's Kitchen by Marcella Hazan has classic Italian food by the cook who believes that 'the best dishes are always best made at home'. Ms Hazan explains the origin and development of her recipes and includes 250 new ones. Bio info >> Hazan was born in 1924 in Cesenatico in Emilia-Romagna. Her parents & her grandmothers cooked, and although she doesn't seem to have done much herself she obviously absorbed an enormous amount. In the kitchen of her New York apartment there was no one to coach her so she began by using cookbooks from Italy, but then began to reuse that acquired information/methodology that she had from home and created her own dishes based on them. Hazan began giving cooking lessons in her flat, and opened her own cooking school, The School of Classic Italian Cooking, in 1969. In the early 1970s, she began to contribute to the NY Times. Hazan's cookbooks concentrate on strictly traditional Italian cookery without American or British influence. Her recipes tend to use only ingredients that would be foundd in Italian kitchens. Hazan's recipes emphasise careful attention to detail. She recommends preparing food by hand rather than processor and prefers the stovetop to the oven because it's more engaging. Her recipes are not necessarily complicated. 327 clean well bound pp. Very Good/None issued.