Pasta Grannies: Comfort Cooking: Traditional Family Recipes From Italys Best Home Cooks Vicky Bennison Book

Bring the warmth of an Italian kitchen to your home with Pasta Grannies: Comfort Cooking: Traditional Family Recipes From Italys Best Home Cooks — a lovingly compiled hardcover cookbook for home cooks, parents, teachers, and gift buyers who appreciate simple, soulful food. Perfect for anyone who wants to learn authentic, crowd-pleasing Italian dishes from the women who have kept these recipes alive for generations. Title in this Set: Pasta Grannies: Comfort Cooking Condition: BRAND NEW Format: Hardcover ISBN: 9781784885243 Author and documentarian Vicky Bennison, known for the bestselling Pasta Grannies cookbook and the popular Pasta Grannies YouTube channel, curates 91 comfort-filled recipes and personal stories that celebrate heritage cooking. Bennisons background as a travel writer and filmmaker gives this childrens-series-style storytelling a genuine, human touch — recipes come with context, regional detail, and the kind of practical tips only someone whos spent years filming in Italian homes could provide. Whats inside This book is more than a pasta cookbook — its a book collection of family wisdom and seasonal cooking. Discover a range of dishes across chapters including: Pasta with meat, seafood, and vegetables — from rustic tagliatelle to simple weekday favorites. Pizzas, pastries and pies — comfort baking that showcases regional doughs and fillings. Rice and pulses — hearty risottos and legume-based sides that pair with pasta or stand alone. Dairy, herbs, nuts and spices — tips for using pantry staples to elevate each recipe. Featured home cooks Meet the grandmothers behind the recipes: 91-year-old Pina from Liguria teaches you chestnut gnocchi with walnut pesto, made with ingredients she grows around her home. Ninety-nine-year-old Marietta shares a special tagliatelle approach thats less a strict recipe and more a reflection of her vegetable garden and the Calabrian seasons. These personal stories and step-by-step methods make authentic Itali