What I'm Reading (& watching & listening to)
The Tradition of Living Beautifully, Issue #7
Hope you’re having a wonderful start to your Memorial Day weekend. If you’re looking for some good reads, watches, and listens to wile away the next couple days, I got you! Below are some of the things I’ve been reading, watching, and listening to since the last time I shared with you.
Also, want to let you know that you can also listen to the new season of my podcast, “Bella Figura—The Tradition of Living Beautifully,” which began airing yesterday! The theme for this season is “Slow Down,” and I’m having conversations with amazing guests about how we can slow down, what slowing down looks and feels like, and other ways to live beautifully. You can listen by clicking here, or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify! Hope you love it!
Italian American: Red Sauce Classics and New Essentials: A Cookbook, by Angie Rito and Scott Tacinelli
There are a lot of cookbooks on the shelf that highlight Italian cuisine. Some good ones that cover that less respected hybrid, Italian American cuisine. And, at least to my knowledge, only one that combines Italian American cuisine and the coveted Michelin Star seal of excellence, as well as being nominated for the James Beard Award, another coveted cooking accolade.
That’s this cookbook.
And I have to tell you, it makes me proud! In a world of Tony Sopranos, velour tracksuits, and meatball subs as the definition of what Italian American culture is, the fact that these two restaurateurs have refined and elevated that image, brought it into the big leagues if you will, thrills me. Obviously, I’m partial to this, as a lot of the work I do is to, in part, put a chip in this image of my culture and unveil a side of Italian America that is sophisticated, educated, refined, and bursting with creativity.
