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Elodia Rigante's Italian Immigrant Cooking:
Here is authentic Italian home-cooking at its best. Elodia Rigante, a second-generation Italian-American, was raised in New York's Little Italy-- and she is a virtuoso cook of traditional Italian fare. In these pages, Elodia not only shares her prizes recipes but also evokes the spirit behind her cooking. She invites us into her home, to meet the members of her family. In doing so, she provides us with a taste of the old Italy that her parents brought with them to the New World at the beginning of the 1900s.
Elodia takes us to an era when the old timers, those born in Italy but living in America, grew figs in their backyards and made wine in their basements, a time when her mother made pasta by hand on the kitchen table and picked fresh herbs from the kitchen garden to create traditional, aromatic, and moth-watering meals.
Here you will find her tips on how to cook a rich man's dish on a poor man's pocket, and her time-saving shortcuts for making traditional Italian fare quickly, so that you can enjoy the taste of the Old World while keeping up with the fast pace of the New. Elodia shares her secrets here, including her wisdom about the hand of the cook, the crucial ingredient treasured in Old Italy that makes the difference between passable food preparation and truly great cooking.
There are surprises here for the health conscious, too. The cuisine that her parents brought with them from the Old Country was centered around fresh fruits and vegetables that grew in their region of southern Italy, and around the abundant seafood available there. It is no wonder that the Mediterranean diet that her family has enjoyed for generations is now rapidly becoming famous for its ability to sustain good health!
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by Barbara (New London, CT) 1 review This is my favorite cookbook. I ordered 4 copies for my very best friends for Christmas. I loved sharing something that I love with the friends I love best. All my girlfriends were very pleased with this cookbook. I got one review back ASAP and she said she loved reading the stories as much as reading the receipes. All my friends LOVE cookbooks so these were special gifts. Elodia gives us the REAL Italian American receipes. Can you say gravy instead of sauce? Macoroni instead of pasta? I will reccomend this book to anyone.
by Mary (Meherrin, VA) 1 review Excellent condition and fast delivery. I have this book a long time. I got this one for my sons wife. This is a great Italian cookbook. Iam Italian and I know good food and this book is it.
by patricia (Acton, MA) 1 review Easy and familar recipes for all of us who had a nonna, or who have had known one. Comfort food to enjoy and remember.
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