Through 150 decadent and smart recipes, the Food Network icon explores how the relationships with her family have shaped her as a chef and Home cook.
In Cook with Me, Alex revives the Recipes she grew up with, such as her mom\'s chicken with barbecue sauce and her dad\'s steamed pork dumplings, offers r.
And, more than anything, cooking is what Alex and her daughter, Ava, most love to do together.
Now, with a daughter of her own, food and cooking mean even more to Alex--they are a way for her to share memories, such as shopping in Little Italy with her father for cured meats and aged cheeses, and tasting the Recipes her mom would make from the cookbooks of the iconic authors she worked with.
Each recipe overflows with love and purpose, technique and soul, and, most of all, genuine joy for nourishing the people in your life who matter most.--Gail Simmons, food expert, TV host, and author of Bringing it Home Growing up with a legendary cookbook-editor mother and a food-obsessed father, Alex Guarnaschelli has always loved to cook.
Through 150 decadent and smart recipes, the Food Network icon explores how the relationships with her family have shaped her as a chef and Home cook.
Alex\'s passion for food and heritage sparkles in this deliciously poignant tribute to the food that defines a family.
You\'ll find two ways to make spaghetti and meatballs--Godfather-style and Goodfellas-style--as well as luscious desserts like a Blueberry Crumble inspired by the version her mom made during blueberry season every summer.
She shares dishes she grew up with, like her mom\'s classic roasted chicken with barbecue sauce, the Baked Ziti that she wishes she grew up with (she had to experience it first in a restaurant--her mom refused to make it ), her dad\'s steamed pork and rice dumplings, as well as the recipe for broccoli that encouraged her daughter to embrace and devour this divisive vegetable.
In Cook with Me, Alex charms readers with 150 honed, smart Recipes complimented by insightful and heartfelt reflections.
Now with a daughter of her own, food and cooking mean even more to her.
with a legendary cookbook-editor mother (Maria Guarnaschelli) and a food-obsessed father, the Food Network icon and Iron Chef has always been immersed in the culinary world.
For Alex Guarnaschelli, cooking has never been just about getting dinner on the table.
These Recipes are the evolution of me.
This book is who I am now--it is a road map to who I am as a cook, parent, and daughter.
Through 150 decadent and smart recipes, the Food Network icon explores how the relationships with her family have shaped her as a chef and Home cook