Festa: Recipes and Recollections of Italian Holidays - Paperback

by Helen Barolini (Author)

Born of Italian-American parents, Helen Barolini rediscovered her culinary heritage when she married Italian writer Antonio Barolini and lived for some years in Italy. Festa is a year-long feast of memories and delicious, traditional Italian dishes--from St. Nicholas sweetmeats in December and perciatelli with sardines and fennel for March's St. Joseph's Day, to figs with prosciutto for summer's Ferragosto and pumpkin gnocchi for an American Thanksgiving in Italy.

Author Biography

Helen Barolini is the author of seven books, including Chiaroscuro: Essays of Identity, also published by the University of Wisconsin Press. She has received an American Book Award for The Dream Book: An Anthology of Writings by Italian American Women, and her essay "How I Learned to Speak Italian" was selected for The Best American Essays, 1998.