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The Lost Ravioli Recipes of Hoboken: A Search for Food and Family

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Can a recipe change your life? A quest for an authentic dish reveals a mythic love story and age-old culinary secrets.

James Beard Award-winning writer Laura Schenone undertakes a quest to retrieve her great grandmother’s ravioli recipe, reuniting with relatives as she goes. In lyrical prose and delicious recipes, Schenone takes the reader on an unforgettable journey from the grit of New Jersey’s industrial wastelands and the quick-paced disposable culture of its suburbs to the dramatically beautiful coast of Liguria―the circle of relatives’s fatherland―with its pesto, smoked chestnuts, torte, and, so much beloved of all, ravioli, the food of celebration and happiness. Schenone discovers the persistent importance of place, even as offering a perceptive voice on immigration and ethnicity in its twilight. Along the best way, she gives us the comedies and foibles of circle of relatives life, a story of affection and loss, a deeper figuring out of the bonds between parents and children, and the mysteries of pasta, rolled into a great circle of gossamer dough.

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