The Italian Celebration Cookbook: 130 Recipes Inspired by Family Traditions and Seasonal Joy - Hardcover

by Rossella Rago (Author)

Bring family together with this culinary treasury jam-packed with 130 traditional holiday recipes from almost every region of Italy.

With The Italian Celebration Cookbook, you can enjoy classic Italian delights all year round. Featuring mouthwatering photographs and step-by-step instructions, this cookbook will nourish your love for Italian food and make feeding the family fun and easy.

In addition to the major holidays of Christmas, Easter, and Thanksgiving, you will find favorite recipes for New Year's Eve and Day, the Epiphany, Little Easter, St. Joseph's Day, Carnevale, All Souls' Day, Valentine's Day, and Saint Rocco's Feast. Complete your year-round Italian tasting tour with recipes for weddings and other celebrations. Indulge in favorites like:

• Struffoli
• Manicotti
• Cannoli Cheesecake
• Seven Fishes Seafood Salad
• Stuffed Artichokes
• Lamb Ragú
• And more!

Nothing brings family together like delicious food around the holidays, and The Italian Celebration Cookbook makes this joy easily achievable for every special gathering throughout the year. Whether you yearn to share the dishes and memories of your childhood with the next generation of Italian Americans or simply love Italian food and culture, this cookbook will treat your taste buds and warm your heart.

Author Biography

Rossella Rago is the host of the popular web TV series Cooking with Nonna (cookingwithnonna.com). For each episode of the show, Rossella invites an Italian-American nonna to cook with her and share traditional Italian recipes and fond memories of her childhood in Italy. Rossella, a graduate of St. John's University, has traveled the country and performed cooking demonstrations in numerous cities across the United States with local nonne as her partners.

Rossella spent her childhood in the kitchen with her maternal Nonna Romana, learning the long legacy of recipes from Puglia passed down through the generations. Launching Cooking with Nonna TV has allowed Rossella to expand her culinary expertise to much of the rest of Italy too. Rossella, together with her mother and her Nonna Romana, won the "Italiano Battle" episode of the Food Network's 24 Hour Restaurant Battle in 2010. She is the author of Cooking with Nonna, Cooking with Nonna: A Year of Italian Holidays, and Cooking with Nonna: Sunday Dinners with La Famiglia. Rossella lives in Brooklyn, New York.