Rao's Cookbook: Over 100 Years of Italian Home Cooking (inscribed by Pelligrino)

Frank Pellegrino

ISBN 10: 0679457496 / ISBN 13: 9780679457497

Published by Random House, 1998

About this Item

Inscribed by Pellegrino on the half title page. A fine copy in a very good DJ that has water damage on the inside that penetrates a little to the outside, now protected in removable archival mylar. See my photos of the book you will receive, not stock photos. All books are wrapped in bubble wrap and shipped in a cardboard box. USPS tracking provided. #15. Seller Inventory # 017152

Bibliographic Details

Title: Rao's Cookbook: Over 100 Years of Italian ...

Publisher: Random House

Publication Date: 1998

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

Signed: Inscribed by Author(s)

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Synopsis:

Rao’s, the hundred-year-old restaurant with a mere ten tables tucked in a corner of East Harlem in what was once a legendary Italian neighborhood, is one of the most sought-after restaurants in all of Manhattan. Its tables are booked months in advance by regulars who go to enjoy what The New York Times calls its “exquisitely simple Italian cooking” from traditional recipes, many as old as Rao’s itself. You may not get a table at Rao’s, but now with this book you can prepare the best Italian home-style food in the world in your own kitchen. Here for the first time are recipes for all of Rao’s fabulous classics—its famous marinara sauce, seafood salad, roasted peppers with pine nuts and raisins, baked clams, lemon chicken, chicken scarpariello, and on and on.

The recipes are accompanied by photographs that re-create Rao's magic and testimonials from loyal Rao’s fans. Here too is a brief history of the restaurant by Nicholas Pileggi and a Preface by Dick Schaap. Both will convince you that what you have in your hands is a national treasure, a piece of history, and a collection of the best Italian American recipes you will ever find.

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