Cookbook author Marcella Hazan, a guru of Italian food, dies at 89
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Cookbook author Marcella Hazan was famed for her tomato sauce.
LONGBOAT KEY, Fla. — Marcella Hazan, the cookbook author who taught generations of Americans how to create simple, fresh Italian food, died Sunday. She was 89.
Hazan was best known for her six cookbooks, written in Italian and translated into English by Victor, her husband of 57 years. The recipes were traditional, tasty and sparse — her famous tomato sauce contained only tomatoes, onion, butter and salt.
She eschewed the American-style Italian food that suffocated mushy pasta in grainy meatballs and tasteless cheese. She begged home cooks to use more salt and once wrote that if readers were concerned about salt affecting one’s life expectancy, they should “not read any further.”
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Chris O'Meara/AP
Cookbook author Marcella Hazan was famed for her tomato sauce.
LONGBOAT KEY, Fla. — Marcella Hazan, the cookbook author who taught generations of Americans how to create simple, fresh Italian food, died Sunday. She was 89.
Hazan was best known for her six cookbooks, written in Italian and translated into English by Victor, her husband of 57 years. The recipes were traditional, tasty and sparse — her famous tomato sauce contained only tomatoes, onion, butter and salt.
She eschewed the American-style Italian food that suffocated mushy pasta in grainy meatballs and tasteless cheese. She begged home cooks to use more salt and once wrote that if readers were concerned about salt affecting one’s life expectancy, they should “not read any further.”
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/eats/marcella-hazan-dies-article-1.1471278#ixzz2gOAsFREw
