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

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.

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.

Summary

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

Product details

• Authors: Laura Schenone, Schenone Laura
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.10.2008
• EAN: 9780393334234
• ISBN: 978-0-393-33423-4
• No. of pages: 354
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 208 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 452 g
• Illustrations: 90 illustrations
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; COOKING / General, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General, Autobiography: general, New Jersey, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, Cookery / food & drink etc, Social and cultural history, Cookery / food and drink / food writing