Cooking with The Ammaccapanes: A Family Food Memoir

"Mangia! Mangia!" is shouted through out the house. "Wait. Pass me more food. I can see my plate," is the cry at Thanksgiving heard from the teenagers' table from the back room."Cooking with The Ammaccapanes"is a delicious, nostalgic remembrance of shared holidays during the '50s and '60s with the Ammaccapane clan of St. Louis, Missouri. Massive gatherings of La Famiglia - cousins first, second and once removed; aunts, uncles, in-laws and out-laws; babies in playpens and highchairs - all together under the open embrace of Nana and Popo to eat, drink, play games, tell stories, sing and dance. A collection of family recipes and stories of holidays gone by - those blissful years of youth when getting together for a picnic was the best thing to happen all summer.A family legacy of Pietro and Marie Catherine Ammaccapane and their descendants. Read more