![]() But she did not know how to cook and wasn't interested in learning. She saw it mainly as fuel - getting her through the day and all the activities she enjoyed. Growing up, she didn't have much interest in food. And, in doing so, she tapped into a previously unknown talent - cooking. Everything was not natural."ĭespite limited ingredients - and her limited English - she did her best to re-create Italian food as she remembered it. And at the supermarket they were very dead they were wrapped it was like a coffin. "The chicken, they were arriving from the farmer and they were alive. "I never saw a supermarket in Italy," she tells NPR's Linda Wertheimer. When Marcella Hazan came to the United States in 1955, one of her first priorities was figuring out how she would feed her husband, Victor. The American grocery stores, with all their canned goods and prepackaged foods, were a far cry from the markets of her Italian homeland, where fresh produce, meats and fish were easy to find. ![]() ![]() Marcella Polini and Victor Hazan in 1952, in her hometown of Cesenatico, Italy, shortly after they met. ![]()
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