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Each page is a voyage through Italy’s rich and diverse gastronomic landscape, featuring grandmothers who lovingly share their secrets to making the perfect pasta.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis cookbook features over 70 easy-to-follow and accessible recipes collected from different regions of Italy. Whether you are a novice or a seasoned cook, you will find something to inspire your culinary creativity. The recipes range from simple, hand-rolled spaghetti known as \u003ci\u003epici\u003c\/i\u003e, to the intricate and dexterous \u003ci\u003elumachelle della duchessa\u003c\/i\u003e, tiny, ridged, cinnamon-scented tubes that require patience and skill.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhat makes \u003cem\u003ePasta Grannies\u003c\/em\u003e truly exceptional is its engaging storytelling. Alongside the recipes, the book includes beautiful photographs and personal anecdotes, offering a glimpse into the lives of the grandmothers featured. 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Vicky Bennison, the author of the bestselling \u003ci\u003ePasta Grannies\u003c\/i\u003e cookbook, brings you more heart-warming recipes and stories from our favourite Italian grandmothers in this easy-to-follow, crowd-pleasing recipe book that shows you how to make authentic Italian food that everyone will enjoy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDiscover 91 year-old Pina's chestnut gnocchi with walnut pesto, lovingly made with ingredients she grows around her home in Liguria; or 99 year-old Marietta's special tagliatelle recipe, which is not really a recipe at all but a reflection of her vegetable garden, the Calabrian countryside and the changing seasons. As well as meat, seafood and vegetable pasta recipes, chapters cover pizzas, pastries and pies, rice and pulses, dairy and herbs, nuts and spices.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEvery recipe is accompanied with a QR code which, once scanned, will take you directly to the YouTube videos of these remarkable women and their recipes. 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