Cooking with Nonna: Celebrate Food & Family With Over 100 Classic Recipes from Italian Grandmothers

Rossella Rago

Mar 2017 · Race Point Publishing

About this ebook

Learn to cook classic Italian recipes like a native with the long-awaited debut cookbook from Rossella Rago, creator of the popular web TV series Cooking with Nonna!

For Rossella Rago, creator and host of Cooking with Nonna TV, Italian cooking was never just about the amazing food or Sunday dinner; it was also about family, community, and tradition. Rossella grew up cooking with her Nonna Romana every Sunday and on holidays, learning the traditional recipes of the Italian region of Puglia, like focaccia, braciole, zucchine alla poverella, and pizza rustica.

In her popular web TV series, Rossella invites Italian-American grandmothers (the unsung heroes of the culinary world) to cook with her, learning the classic dishes and flavors of each region of Italy and sharing them with eager fans all over the world. Now you can take a culinary journey through Italy with Rossella and her debut cookbook, Cooking with Nonna, featuring over 100 classic Italian recipes, along with advice and stories from 25 beloved Italian grandmothers.

With easy-to-follow step-by-step instructions and mouthwatering photos, Cooking with Nonna covers appetizers, soups, salads, pasta, meats, breads, cookies, and desserts, and features favorite recipes including: 
 

• Sicilian Rice Balls
• Fried Calamari
• Stuffed Artichokes
• Orecchiette with Broccoli Rabe
• Veal Stew in a Polenta Bowl
• Struffoli
• Ricotta Cookies
• Homemade Pasta
• Handcrafted Spaghetti with Meatballs
• Four-Cheer Lasagna

If you are ready to bring back Sunday dinner and learn how to make Italian food just like nonna, then look no further!

Ratings and reviews

By Bill Marsano. No one loves the past so much as an Italian, and that’s the reason that, while Americans may pine for the meals “Mom used to make,” Italians relegate Mamma to the status of apprentice: For them, it’s Nonna—grandma—who is the kitchen goddess supreme, the font of knowledge, lore and tradition. So Rossella Rago, born into the Brooklyn’s durable Italo-American community, was only responding to her genes when she went from cooking beside her own nonna to transporting that knowledge to her television show, “Cooking With Nonna” and then broadening her reach to any number of other nonnas and finally turning the whole thing into a book. A quite a book it is, a book that sites as comfortably in your lap for a nice homey, nostalgic read or propped up for use and consultation on the kitchen counter--preferably behind an OXO cookbook shield, also available from Amazon. The photography is gorgeous, as the recipes deserve. They’re an appealing mix of traditional Italian and Italian-American; some as familiar as spaghetti and meatballs, some as homey as panelle (Sicilian chickpea fritters) and pasta e fagioli (the dialect comedians’ “pasta fazool,” and delicious no matter how you pronounce it), as well as obscurities like b baccalà pie and Barese-style focaccia. All are clearly written, well laid-out; all use standard (imperial) and metric measurements, and weights are included, where appropriate, for those using kitchen scales for accuracy. Whether you buy this for yourself or as a gift, it delivers pleasure by the long ton, especially because the recipes are interlarded with the memories and observations of the grandmothers whose recipes are presented. Bill Marsano is a long-time home cook who makes pizza from scratch. Unfortunately, it’s usually shaped like Australia.

Accidentally purchased the e-book, actually wanted the hard cover, but book is amazing! Will try to exchange?

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About the author

Rossella Rago is the host of the popular web TV series Cooking with Nonna (www.cookingwithnonna.com). For each episode of the show, Rossella invites an Italian-American nonna to cook with her and share traditional Italian recipes and fond memories of her childhood in Italy. Rossella, a graduate of St. John’s University, has traveled the country and performed cooking demonstrations in numerous cities across the United States with local nonne as her partners.

Rossella spent her childhood in the kitchen with her maternal Nonna Romana, learning the long legacy of recipes from Puglia passed down through the generations. Launching Cooking with Nonna TV has allowed Rossella to expand her culinary expertise to much of the rest of Italy too. Rossella, together with her mother and her Nonna Romana, won the “Italiano Battle” episode of the Food Network's 24 Hour Restaurant Battle in 2010. She is the author of Cooking with Nonna and Cooking with Nonna: A Year of Italian Holidays (Race Point Publishing, 2017 and 2018). Rossella lives in Brooklyn, New York.