Essentials of Italian Cooking – Marcella Hazan
I am obsessed with this cook book. Though it pains me in my loins to not just DUMP garlic in every dish we make, I’ve never made something that didn’t come out melting panties. There are SO many Italian cook books out there, but after spending some time old Italian cities, the new shiny ones with lots of pretty pictures and young white people on the cover just didn’t seem authentic. I don’t want your interpretation of your old Italian grandma’s dishes from the motherland, I want the original, granny smacking your knuckles with the rolling pin if you touch the fresh cannolis, original.