timballo di zucchini

The current selection of Cook the Books is 97 Orchard, an edible history of immigrant families in NYC. I enjoyed the reading, particularly about the Italian family. The passage that really resonated with me was "No people are more devoted to their native food than Italians and Italian groceries are filled with imported edibles that flourish in the different colonies of the Americas....The prices or the imported goods is a drain on the purses of the patrons and they wearily try to get the same satisfaction from American-made substitutes, which have the same name and appearance but never the same... Read more →