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Pasta Grannies

Comfort Cooking: Traditional Family Recipes From Italy's Best Home Cooks

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"Heartwarming and deliciously comforting." – Stanley Tucci

Spending time with our family and friends has never felt so important - and so often this means cooking for the ones you love.

Who better to take inspiration from than Pasta Grannies who have spent their lifetimes plating up comfort and connection. Vicky Bennison, the author of the bestselling Pasta Grannies cookbook, brings you more heart-warming recipes and stories from our favourite Italian grandmothers in this easy-to-follow, crowd-pleasing recipe book that shows you how to make authentic Italian food that everyone will enjoy.

Discover 91 year-old Pina's chestnut gnocchi with walnut pesto, lovingly made with ingredients she grows around her home in Liguria; or 99 year-old Marietta's special tagliatelle recipe, which is not really a recipe at all but a reflection of her vegetable garden, the Calabrian countryside and the changing seasons. As well as meat, seafood and vegetable pasta recipes, chapters cover pizzas, pastries and pies, rice and pulses, dairy and herbs, nuts and spices.

Every recipe is accompanied with a QR code which, once scanned, will take you directly to the YouTube videos of these remarkable women and their recipes. Complete with stunning location and recipe photography throughout, with a clear guide to pasta making by hand, Pasta Grannies: Comfort Cooking is not only a celebration of cooking and feasting together, it is an insight into their lives, and a joyous slice of the Italian way of life.

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    • Publisher's Weekly

      October 21, 2019
      In this ambitious cookbook, Bennison (The Taste of a Place) compiles dozens of recipes featured on her YouTube channel, Pasta Grannies, in the hopes of “saving traditions and sharing skills” of Italian grandmothers who have been making homemade pasta for most of their lives. Hailing from different Italian regions, the featured grandmas share a variety of pasta shapes in an array of sauces: Letizia from Sicily prepares tagliatelle with fava bean puree; Cesaria from Sardinia makes lorighittas (“double-hooped, twisted strands of spaghetti-shaped pasta”) with tomato-chicken sauce; Cornelia from Liguria makes pansotti; and Rosetta from Liguria makes trofie (corkscrew-shaped pasta) with basic sauce. The book is filled with fascinating anecdotes (“Rosa, it turned out, married the local priest”), and Bennison includes tips for many of the recipes (for shaping the pasta dough for raschiatelli with red peppers, she writes, “Maria rolls them with both hands at the same time for speed”). Other recipes include 93-year-old Giuseppina’s pici with garlic in a tomato sauce that should simmer for two hours, and Ada’s taglioli and bean soup. The recipes are easy to follow and include callouts to the YouTube channel for a visual guide. Bennison’s inviting cookbook of homey recipes celebrates pasta-making traditions.

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