Chunks of ground beef, tomato, onion, and who knows what thrown together with some tomatoes for maybe an hour. You have all seen, and probably eaten, a typical meat sauce with spaghetti. Since that time, I had had the pleasure of eating bolognese in Italy, and I still come back to Marcella Hazan’s bolognese sauce as the standard.

I only started making bolognese then, and I became obsessed and curious about the variety of recipes I have found. On that day six years ago, we virtually visited Bologna, capital of the northern region of Italy, Emilia-Romanga. I wrote about her here and I was able to connect with her before she passed away. World Cookbook legend, Marcella Hazan, wrote a cookbook that remains beloved to this day. We cooked from this marvelous cookbook, the Essentials of Classical Italian Cooking. It wasn’t done, because bolognese is far from baby sitter meat sauce.Īll grown-up I cook what I love and several years ago I led a cooking group on-line called Cooking Italy. I admit to you that I was known to cry when the food got messed up and the recipes altered.īut no one outside of babysitters ever served a meat sauce. The only meat sauce ever served to me was by three babysitters on three separate unhappy occasions. I would probably cry real tears because meat sauce had bad memories for me and was known as babysitter sauce. In 1956 she married Victor Hazan, an Italian-American who subsequently gained fame as a wine writer, and the couple moved to New York City a few months later.Īuthor of The Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking, she was widely considered by chefs and fellow food writers to be one of the foremost authorities on Italian cuisine.If you served me meat sauce as a child, my reaction would be a bit dramatic. She earned a doctorate in natural sciences and biology from the University of Ferrara.

The must-have Italian cookbook by Marcella Hazan, considered by chefs and fellow food writers to be one of the foremost authorities on Italian cuisine.Ībout the Author: Marcella Hazan (1924-2013) was born in the village of Cesenatico in Italy. Aimed at cooks of every level, be they beginners or accomplished chefs, it is an accessible and comprehensive guide to authentic Italian cuisine and should find a place in the kitchen library of anyone who is passionate about good food.įeaturing hundreds of recipes ranging from soups, pastas and risottos, to delicious meat and vegetable dishes, The Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking is an indispensable addition to any kitchen. Marcella Hazan is widely regarded as one of the greatest Italian cookery writers in the world and The Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking is her masterpiece. 'If this were the only cookbook you owned, neither you nor those you cooked for would ever get bored.' -Nigella Lawson

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