By Nancy Harmon Jenkins

I've lived in Italy off and on since the 1970s, eating my way up and down the peninsula, shopping the markets, raising the vegetables in my own gardens, prepping and cooking the food, studying the history and meeting the home cooks and chefs who carry the treasures of the Italian table in their heads, hearts and hands.

I've learned a lot, in short, about Italian cooking. But almost everything I know, everything I've learned, ultimately traces back to one source — Marcella Hazan. Her first book, The Classic Italian Cook Book, published by Knopf in 1973 and acquired by me a few years later as a gift from an erstwhile husband when we moved to Rome, truly opened the doors of my kitchen to Italian cooking.

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