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Dinner & A Book - Cooking With My Sisters: One Hundred Years Of Family Recipes

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Episode #510 - Cooking With My Sisters: One Hundred Years Of Family Recipes

 “Cooking with My Sisters: One Hundred Years of Family Recipes” traces this family’s culinary heritage from the Italian Alps to a community of Italian immigrants in Roseto, Pennsylvania to Big Stone Gap, Virginia, where seven children

 were expected to gather around their parents’ flower-laden table every evening at 6. Mixed in with the rich stories of family are wonderful, easy-to-follow Trigiani family recipes, each one seasoned with the wisdom passed down from the family matriarchs, to the “sisters” to learn about the importance of quality ingredients, proper techniques, and the art of making your guests feel like family. Whether making Easter bread or wedding cookies, canning tomatoes with Grandmom Trigiani or making fresh pasta with Dad, the Trigianis really get into the meat and potatoes of this Italian-American family whose bond strengthened through good times, and good food is a generous gift that Trigiani shares with us throughout her book.  This book reminds us of old-fashioned values and of times well spent with family around the kitchen table.

 This show is a “first” in that we took the show away from the regular studio set and placed it in the kitchen of Jan and Bill Atwood.  Another “first” was bringing in 3 guest hosts:  Pat Morison, Jan Atwood and Pat Bickart. We have all traveled together whether to Paris, London, Chicago or to events in the Michiana area. We have prepared carry-in dinners in each other’s homes, and in fact, this Italian meal will be jointly prepared when friends from Paris come for a visit.

 Pat Morison is retired from Bayer Corporation, Patty Bickart enjoys working on many artistic projects at home and in her community, and Jan Atwood is a nurse at St. Joseph Hospital.  All love to travel and prepare amazing dishes for their friends and family. They made working on “Cooking with My Sisters” a delightful experience.  And many thanks to the WNIT crew for creating “Dinner and a Book” in another setting.

Original Airdate: March 01, 2005