num_pages: 352
description: [NEW for 2014  10 BONUS recipes including gluten-free dishes are included in this newly updated hardcover edition. Same heartfelt award-winning story; now with ten more reasons to bring your family to the table!] Several years ago on a break between theatrical gigs in Alabama Mark traveled to Italy and fell in love with the people food and culture. Armed with just enough courage minimal Italian language skills and a certain proficiency in the kitchen he enrolled in a full-immersion cooking and language program. He would travel south of Tuscany to Viterbo Italy and live with an Italian family. His teachers were beyond his wildest dreams-he learned to cook from the grandmother or Nonna of the family who prepared every meal in a bustling busy household as women in her family have done for generations. Her daughter Alessandra taught him the language with patience and precision. Besides culinary secrets and prepositions they opened their lives to him and made him a real part of their extensive family. Though the book contains authentic delicious family recipes Nonna shared with Mark Beyond the Pasta delves into food memoir subject matter not found in a typical cookbook. It was the day-to-day shopping with Nonna exploring the countryside and le gelaterie where he truly developed his language skills and a new more joyful and uniquely Italian way of looking at the world.
language: English
title: Beyond the Pasta; Recipes, Language and Life with an Italian Family
publisher: Gemelli Press LLC