Pasta Grannies: The Secrets of Italy's Best Home Cooks

WINNER OF THE JAMES BEARD AWARD FOR SINGLE SUBJECTSAVING TRADITIONS AND SHARING SKILLS, ONE GRANNY AT A TIME!"When you have good ingredients, you don't have to worry about cooking. They do the work for you." - Lucia, 85Learn how to make pasta like Italian nonnas do. Inspired by the hugely popular YouTube channel of the same name, Pasta Grannies is a wonderful collection of time-perfected Italian pasta recipes from the people who have spent a lifetime cooking for love, not a living: Italian grandmothers.For a nonna, love is putting food on the table, and pasta is the perfect vehicle to make precious ingredients go further. Featuring easy and accessible recipes from all over Italy, you will be transported into the very heart of the Italian home to learn how to make great-tasting Italian food. From pici - a type of hand-rolled spaghetti that is simple to make - to lumachelle della duchessa - tiny, ridged, cinnamon-scented tubes that take patience and dexterity, every nonna has her own spe