The Lost Ravioli Recipes of Hoboken: A Search for Food and Family

by Laura Schenone

Overview

"Dazzles like the harbor of Portofino." —Adriana Trigiani

Laura Schenone's original goal was simple enough: to find her great-grandmother's recipe for ravioli. But things get more complicated as she reunites with relatives and digs up buried family stories. Taking readers from New Jersey's industrial wastelands and fast-paced suburbs to the coast of Liguria—homeland of her ancestors and of ravioli—The Lost Ravioli Recipes of Hoboken is a story of the comedies and foibles of family life, of love and loss, of old homes and new, and of the mysteries of pasta, rolled on a pin into a perfect circle of gossamer dough.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780393334234
Publisher:	Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Publication date:	10/17/2008
Pages:	354
Product dimensions:	5.60(w) x 8.20(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Laura Schenone is the author of the James Beard Award–winning A Thousand Years Over a Hot Stove and The Lost Ravioli Recipes of Hoboken. She lives in New Jersey with her family and dog Lily.

Editorial Reviews

"Fascinating and memorable."

Elle - Julie Kronenfel

"Lovely."

Entertainment Weekly

"This is [a] feast for the mind and the heart, as well as the palate."

Peg Tyre - Newsweek

"[A] solidly researched, lovingly written memoir—and a splendid detective story…This wonderfully intricate, rumpled, generous narrative would be a joy even without the final lagniappe of about two dozen hard-won recipes."

Saveur - Anne Mendelson

"A culinary detective story, a family confessional, and a moving meditation on assimilation and authenticity."

Star-Ledger (New Jersey) - Vicki Hyman

[A] solidly researched, lovingly written memoir--and a splendid detective story...This wonderfully intricate, rumpled, generous narrative would be a joy even without the final lagniappe of about two dozen hard-won recipes.--Anne Mendelson "Saveur"

A culinary detective story, a family confessional, and a moving meditation on assimilation and authenticity.--Vicki Hyman "Star-Ledger (New Jersey)"

Fascinating and memorable.--Julie Kronenfel "Elle"

Lovely.-- "Entertainment Weekly"

This is [a] feast for the mind and the heart, as well as the palate.--Newsweek "Peg Tyre"

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