Festa del Giardino: A Harvest of Recipes and Family Memories

by Sally Maraventano

A collection of 125 Italian vegtable recipes from antipasti to dolci. Inspired by Sally Maraventanos traditional SICILIAN heritage and her culinary tours to the cooking schools of Italy. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1893127990
• ISBN13: 9781893127999
• Release Date: May 1999
• Publisher: Sally Maraventano
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.0" x 8.1"

Customer Reviews

The best!

I love this book - it has wonderful personal appeal and great recipes. I was forever looking for good Italian vegetable recipes and this is the best book of them I have found.

Recipes and Family Memories

Simple, healthy foods. Very easy to prepare. Very good soup recipes. Give this book a try I know you will enjoy!

Good cooking! Good memories!

A lovely cookbook - just the kind I look for to find simple recipes and lots of inspiration. Ms. Maraventano has captured a perfect balance between memoir and cookbook. I bought it because it promised lots of practical uses for the great summer bounty of Jersey vegetables -- tomotoes, zucchini, basil, etc. I found that and much, much more. Each recipe has a simple introduction that reminded me of my own Italian family. It's the collection of recipes I wish I'd kept myself. Whether for a summer supper of beautiful vegetables or for a cozy, "safe from the storm" pasta dish that I associate with fall evenings, I found comfort, nostalgia and the desire to cook in "Festa Del Giardino." Go out and buy it! Enjoy summer. Enjoy fall. Every season. Enjoy life!

Family memories

My wife and I were paging through your cookbook last night and she remarked that your recipes are exactly how we eat. Your prelude left me with a tear in my eye and a nostalgic longing for my extended family and family dinners in Brooklyn and Queens, where I grew up. I'm really afraid that unless our generation holds on to some of those traditions they will be lost in 25 years.

Festa del Giardino

This is a wonderful cookbook, chock full of fresh from the garden recipes that have pleased my family. From soups, to slads, and other vegetarian dishes, this book reads like a dream! The history the author shares about her family is heartwarming, and any Italian/Sicilian family will relate to it whole heartedly. I enthusiastically reccommend this cookbook to anyone who loves fresh wholesome foods. I have given it to many friends and relatives, and everyone has enjoyed it immensly! Hats off to Sally! This is a quality cookbook you will turn to over and over again.