Everyone loves big platters of hearty, rich, delicious Italian food, and no one doews it better than Carmine's, the most celebrated New York restaurant. In this cookbook, they reveal the secrets of Carmine's longtime success.

Carmine's restaurant packs them in every night in its four bustling locations--particularly in its warm, festive, burnished Times Square flagship, where over a million locals and tourists from all across the country come every year to share meatballs, chicken parmagiana, linguini with clam sauce, and fried calamari. Carmine's flavors are the tastes Americans Love to cook and eat at home--fresh garlic, bubbling tomato sauce, pasta boiled just to the perfect al dente. Now, in The Carmine's Family-Style Cookbook, New York's happiest restaurant gives us its secrets for over 100 perfect recipes from appetizers and heroes to pasta, fish and seafood, meat and poultry, desserts and much, much more.