The Lost Ravioli Recipes of Hoboken
A Search for Food and Family
16 September 2008
Description
"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.
Reviews
"This is [a] feast for the mind and the heart, as well as the palate." — Newsweek, Peg Tyre
"Lovely." — Entertainment Weekly
"Fascinating and memorable." — Julie Kronenfel, Elle
"A culinary detective story, a family confessional, and a moving meditation on assimilation and authenticity." — Vicki Hyman, Star-Ledger (New Jersey)
"[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
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