This review was prepared by Elaine of The Italian Dish.
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When I was asked to review Laura Schenone's The Lost Ravioli Recipes of Hoboken: A Search for Food and Family, I was excited because I had seen the book before and I have quite an interest in making ravioli. What I didn’t realize, however, was that this was not really a cookbook – it is a memoir with recipes. So not only did I have a lot more reading ahead of me, I was much more engrossed in it than if I had been reading an ordinary cookbook.

Laura is a food writer living in Hoboken, New Jersey who longs for an authentic family recipe and becomes a little obsessed in her search for the origins of the family ravioli recipe. The ravioli was originally made by her Italian great grandmother, who immigrated to New Jersey from Italy. Her quest for this recipe leads her to long lost cousins and aunts across the country who finally send her the original ravioli recipe.

This review was prepared by Lisa of Parsley, Sage, Desserts and Line Drives.

This is not your Nonna’s Italian cookbook, or recipe box for that matter, but not for the reasons I initially thought. Upon receiving the book Cooking From Above - Italian by Laura Zavan (photographed by Pierre Javelle), my first thought was, “Wow, what a sleek, modern looking cookbook – cooking from above must mean a lot of unique, modern twists on classic Italian favorites!” Boy, was I wrong! "Cooking from Above" refers to the aerial photography in the book, and is actually part of a series of cookbooks by different authors, that range from Baking, to Classics, to Asian.