The Wiseguy Cookbook: My Favorite Recipes from My Life as a Goodfella to Cooking on the Run

Henry Hill; Priscilla Davis

ISBN 10: 0451207068 / ISBN 13: 9780451207067

Published by New American Library, New York, 2002

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Softcover includes Index, 336 pages. The exception to the condition is a remainder mark on the bottom of the text block.

Seller Inventory # 008285

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Wiseguy Cookbook: My Favorite Recipes from My Life as a Goodfella to Cooking on the Run
• Publisher: New American Library, New York
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0451207068
• ISBN 13: 9780451207067
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good +

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Synopsis

Now, in his inimitable style, Henry Hill tells some spicy stories of his life in the Mob and shows you how to whip up his favorite dishes, Sicilian style—even when you’re cooking on the run. Learn delicious recipes that make even the toughest tough guy beg for more…

Henry Hill was a born wiseguy. At the pizzeria where he worked as a kid, he learned to substitute pork for veal in cutlets—which came in handy later when the bankroll was low. At thirteen, he got his first percentage from a local deli—that lost business when he started supplying the neighborhood wiseguys with his own heroes. And what great heroes they were.

Once he entered Witness Protection, though, Hill found himself in places where prosciutto was impossible to get and gravy was something you put on mashed potatoes. So he learned to fake it when necessary (for example, Romano with white pepper took the place of real pecorino-siciliano cheese), and wherever he found himself, Hill managed to keep good Italian food on the table. He still brings this flair for improvisation to his cooking. No recipe is set in stone. And substitutions are listed in case you need them for these recipes and many more:

Mom’s Antipasto • Sunday Gravy (Meat Sauce) • Cheater’s Chicken Stock • Striped Bass for Paulie • Fat Larry’s Pizza Dough • Henry’s Kickback Antipasti Hero • Sicilian Easter Bread with Colored Eggs • Clams Casino • Osso Buco • Oven Penitentiary Sauce with Sausage • Michael’s Favorite Ziti with Meat Sauce

About the Author

Henry Hill began working for the Lucchese crime family in the East New York section of Brooklyn at the age of eleven. Fully indoctrinated into all aspects of gangster life, Henry was involved in virtually every type of racket and criminal activity that the family ran. To avoid prison, he disappeared into the Federal Witness Protection Program, which relocated him and his family in various out-of-the-way places numerous times over the ensuing years.