{"product_id":"the-lofrisco-family-cookbook-how-josie-brought-sicily-to-brooklyn","title":"The LoFrisco Family Cookbook (How Josie Brought Sicily to Brooklyn)","description":"\u003cp\u003eTHE LOFRISCO FAMILY COOKBOOK  HOW JOSIE BROUGHT SICILY TO BROOKLYN by Anthony LoFrisco  is part cookbook  part memoir. The author  son of Sicilian immigrants in the early 1900s  shares not only his mothers time-tested simple and delicious recipes  but he brings them to life by embracing them with endearing family stories of growing up in an Italian-American neighborhood in Brooklyn. More than just ingredients and instructions  THE LOFRISCO FAMILY COOKBOOK is  as Ron Straci  co-owner of New Yorks iconic Italian restaurant  Raos  explains: \"A superb collection of family lore. Fun  food and family  what a wonderful combination. Youll enjoy joining the experience with these authentic recipes.\" The recipes are not about \"fancy \" rather they are a selection of what Josie LoFrisco started cooking at a time when an ice box  not a refrigerator kept ingredients fresh. With a limited budget  leftovers were rarely discarded and to this day  fried leftover spaghetti remains a family favorite. In selecting the best-of-the-best of Josies (and other family members) recipes  Anthony includes only those he rates 9 on a scale of 1 to 10  and you can be sure his bias weighs heavily in the selection process. Happy memories associated with certain dishes play the role of a thumb on the scale. Even annual family squabbles  like how large to chop dried figs for Cuchidada  traditional Christmas cookies  are brought to life. But there will be no squabbles about the family-friendly  easy-to-follow  mouth-watering recipes youll find in THE LOFRISCO FAMILY COOKBOOK. At a time when a single dish of linguine al pesto ordered in an upscale NYC restaurant today costs the equivalent of her weekly food budget back in the 40s LoFrisco jokes that his mother would turn over in her grave.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44966553518133,"sku":"ByrdShop_0997545801","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780997545807.jpg?v=1770567862","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-lofrisco-family-cookbook-how-josie-brought-sicily-to-brooklyn","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}