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Rao's Cookbook: Over 100 Years of Italian Home Cooking

Here for the first time are recipes for all of Rao's fabulous classics - its famous marinara sauce, seafood salad, roasted peppers with pine nuts and raisins, baked clams, lemon chicken, chicken scarpariello, and on and on. The recipes are accompanied by photographs that recreate Rao's magic and testimonials from loyal Rao's fans - from Woody Allen to Beverly Sills. Here too is a brief history of the restaurant by Nicholas Pileggi and a Preface by Dick Schaap. Both will convince you that what you have in your hands is a national treasure, a piece of history, and a collection of the best Italian American recipes you will ever find.

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Rao's is a hundred-year-old Italian restaurant in East Harlem, and one of the most popular eating spots in the city. Here is its colorful history, with recipes, including marinara sauce, lemon chicken, seafood salad, and many classic Neapolitan dishes.

Praise

New York Times
"The book is loaded with nostalgic photographs, attractive pictures of food, accolades from celebrity customers....[T]he recipes are [not] tricky or laden with secret ingredients. In fact, they could not be more straightforward. This is a bible of Italian restaurant classics..." - Florence Fabricant 04/29/1998

Simple Cooking
"You get an appealing collection of Italian-American recipes..., not only old standbys like shrimp scampi, veal parmigiana, and pasta e fagioli but such less familiar traditional neighborhood dishes as risotto with veal sauce and fillet of sole with fennel and white wine." - John Thorne September 1998