American Masters: Marcella - Arizona PBS

American Masters: Marcella - Arizona PBS

Friday, July 11 at 9 p.m. Discover how celebrated writer Marcella Hazan shaped Italian cuisine in America. After immigrating to New York in the 1950s, she began making authentic dishes from her Italian roots and inspired millions of Americans with her cookbooks. The post American Masters: Marcella appeared first on Arizona PBS.

How Marcella Hazan published her first cookbook

In the early 70s, an editor reached out to Marcella Hazan to write a cookbook. Hesistant because she didn’t write in English, her husband Victor offered to help translate the book for her. Within a year, the two delivered “The Classic Italian Cook Book,” which is now considered “the most seminal Italian cookbook ever published in this country.”

How Marcella Hazan published her first cookbook | American Masters - Dining and Cooking

TRANSCRIPT – Marcella gets another call from this man named Peter Mollman who is an editor at Harper & Row, a publishing house. (gentle music) – They said, would you like to do a cookbook? A cookbook? – I decided it was impossible because I don’t write in English. And Victor said, “Well, if you [...]