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The Amazon Store at MillionDollarPetPix.com ( In association with Amazon.com )Amarcord: Marcella Remembersby: Marcella Hazan  List Price: $27.50 Amazon.com's Price: $16.17 You Save: $11.33 (41%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Binding: HardcoverDewey Decimal Number: 641.50922 EAN: 9781592403882 ISBN: 1592403883 Label: Gotham Manufacturer: Gotham Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 320 Publication Date: October 07, 2008 Publisher: Gotham Studio: Gotham Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: The food publishing event of the season: Beloved teacher and bestselling cookbook author Marcella Hazan tells how a young girl raised in Emilia- Romagna became America’s godmother of Italian cooking. Widely credited with introducing proper Italian food to the English-speaking world, Marcella Hazan is as authentic as they come. Raised in Cesenatico, a quiet fishing town on the northern Adriatic Sea, she’d eventually have her own cooking schools in New York, Bologna, and Venice. There she would teach students from around the world to appreciate—and produce—the food that native Italians eat. She’d write bestselling and award-winning cookbooks, collect invitations to cook at top restaurants, and have thousands of loyal students and readers—some so devoted they’d name their daughters Marcella. Her fans will be as surprised and delighted by how this all came to be as Marcella herself has been. Marcella begins with her early childhood in Alexandria, Egypt, where she broke her arm. After nearly losing the arm to poor medical treatment, she was taken back to her father’s native Italy for surgery. There the family would remain. Her teenage years coincided with World War II, and the family relocated temporarily to Lake Garda— not anticipating that it would be one of the war’s greatest targets. After years of privation and bombings, Marcella was fulfilling her ambition to become a doctor and professor of science when she met Victor, the love of her life. They married and moved to New York City. Marcella knew not a word of English or—what’s more surprising—a single recipe. She began to attempt to re-create the flavors of her homeland. She took a Chinese cooking class in the early ’60s with women who asked her to teach them Italian cooking, and she began to give them lessons. Soon after, Craig Claiborne invited himself to lunch, and the rest is history. Amarcord means “I remember” in Marcella’s native Romagnolo dialect. In these pages Marcella, now eighty-four, looks back on the adventures of a life lived for pleasure and a love of teaching. Throughout, she entertains the reader with stories of the humorous, sometimes bizarre twists and turns that brought her love, fame, and a chance to change the way we eat forever. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - An interesting life story, with lashings of score settlingBona fide Marcella Hazan fans -- those who admire not just with her habits of cooking, but also with her approach to teaching and, in a general sense, to life -- should probably ignore this review and hit "one click" right away. There's a good deal of detail here: no actual recipes, but plenty of cook-talk about ingredients and methods. I think you'll love it; read the book and don't bother with this review. In general, I enjoy reading about cooks and especially about the movement that ... Read More Rating:  - A Book to SavorI have not yet finished this book...I'm savoring each page...each vibrant word, and delectable description about life and food. What a joy to read this book. I feel like I'm sitting in Marcella's kitchen as she reminisces about her life. Snuggle up with this book and a plate of manicotti, and you are sure to be in heaven. Comfort food for the mind. I had never heard of Hazan before, but will certainly purchase her cookbooks after reading her autobiography. Rating: - who are fans of Hazan's cookbooks, and who like autobiographies, will relish this storyMarcella Hazan has been credited with introducing Italian food to the English-speaking world, but until now she's received relatively little attention for her personal life. Her memoir begins in Egypt, where she spent her early childhood, follows her unexpected journey back to family roots in Italy at a young age, and follows her initial ambition to become doctor and professor of science before she marries, moves to America, and began taking cooking lessons to re-create the taste of her homeland. Any ... Read More 
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