The lost ravioli recipes of Hoboken : a search for food and family

**"Dazzles like the harbor of Portofino." —Adriana Trigiani** Laura Schenone's original goal was simple enough: to find her great-grandmother's recipe for ravioli. But things get more complicated as she reunites with relatives and digs up buried family stories. Taking readers from New Jersey's industrial wastelands and fast-paced suburbs to the coast of Liguria—homeland of her ancestors and of ravioli—The Lost Ravioli Recipes of Hoboken is a story of the comedies and foibles of family life, of love and loss, of old homes and new, and of the mysteries of pasta, rolled on a pin into a perfect circle of gossamer dough. "When James Beard Award-winning author Laura Schenone undertakes a quest to retrieve her great grandmother's recipe for ravioli, she finds herself on an unforgettable journey. Her original goal was simple enough: to learn to make an authentic old family dish. But things get more complicated as she reunites with relatives, digs up buried family stories, and finds conflicting ideas about the past and what is true." Traces the author's quest for her great-grandmother's ravioli recipe, a journey that took her throughout New Jersey and her family's homeland of Liguria into the circles of numerous relatives, from whom she collected many authentic recipes