Education

The Cooking of Casa Planta

by Elisia Menduni

A richly illustrated book on Sicilian cooking is The Cooking of Casa Planta by Elisia Menduni. contains photographs of dishes from the 5 regions of Sicily. The 90 recipes in the book have come down to us from the memory and manuscript notebooks kept by the Planeta family’s aunts who opened their ancient collection of culinary traditions. The family has played a key role in Sicily’s agriculture for eighteen generations. The Planeta winery was the source of Cerasuolo in NTP 2022.

Taste

by Stanley Tucci

Stanley Tucci grew up in an Italian American family that spent every night around the kitchen table. He shared the magic of those meals with us in The Tucci Cookbook and The Tucci Table, and now he takes us beyond the savory recipes and into the compelling stories behind them.​

Taste is a reflection on the intersection of food and life, filled with anecdotes about his growing up in Westchester, New York; preparing for and shooting the foodie films Big Night and Jule & Julia; falling in love over dinner; and teaming up with his wife to create meals for a multitude of children. Each morsel of this gastronomic journey through good times and bad, five-star meals and burned dishes, is as heartfelt and delicious as the last.

Written with Stanley’s signature wry humor, Taste is for fans of Bill Buford, Gabrielle Hamilton, and Ruth Reichl—and anyone who knows the power of a home-cooked meal