The Lost Ravioli Recipes of Hoboken

"When James Beard Award-winning author Laura Schenone undertakes a quest to retrieve her great grandmother's recipe for ravioli, she finds herself on an unforgettable journey. Her original goal was simple enough: to learn to make an authentic old family dish. But things get more complicated as she reunites with relatives, digs up buried family stories, and finds conflicting ideas about the past and what is true." "Schenone takes her readers from the gritty landscape of New Jersey's industrial wastelands and its fast-paced suburbs to the dramatically beautiful coast of Liguria - the family's homeland - with its pesto, smoked chestnuts, torte, and, most beloved of all, ravioli, the food of happiness and celebration. Finding her way into the kitchens of trattorias and legendary home cooks in Genoa, she discovers the persistent importance of place and offers a perceptive voice on ethnicity in its twilight." "The Lost Ravioli 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."--BOOK JACKET.Schenone, Laura is the author of 'The Lost Ravioli Recipes of Hoboken' with ISBN 9780393061468 and ISBN 0393061469.