Mother Sauce

Closed, opens tomorrow 11amIndependent shop in FremontDirections

Available from Book Larder when we last checked. Sold from the shop’s own store; the price there is the one that counts.

Home cook and author Lucinda Scala Quinn shares 100 iconic and beloved Italian-American recipes from the last 100 years. In America today, nonna’s cooking is everyone’s favorite food with spaghetti, lasagna, and pizza some of the most popular dishes. Yet this is a cuisine that is only a century old. When Italian families first arrived in the U.S. in the first part of the twentieth century, mammas brought with them the skills and ingredient know-how to fashion a whole new foodway in spite of livi