How Marcella Hazan published her first cookbook

Season 39 Episode 6

About the Episode

In the early 70s, an editor reached out to Marcella Hazan to write a cookbook. Hesistant because she didn’t write in English, her husband Victor offered to help translate the book for her. Within a year, the two delivered “The Classic Italian Cook Book,” which is now considered “the most seminal Italian cookbook ever published in this country.”

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Marcella [Extended Audio Description]

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