Mother Sauce Eden Grinshpan We rely too much on

We rely too much on routine and the conventions of gatherings when we should focus on distinctiveness and the people involved

and desserts are united not by region but by feeling: everything is authentically Italian yet easy for the home cook to create no matter where they live

Named one of Publishers Weekly’s Top 10 Cookbooks of Fall 2025

From the host of the New York Times podcast Together Apart

ONE OF THE BEST COOKBOOKS OF THE YEAR- Los Angeles Times

Mother Sauce Eden Grinshpan We rely too much onFrom home cook and author Lucinda Scala Quinn, a cookbook containing 100 iconic and beloved Italian American recipes from the last century. In America today, everyone loves nonna's cookingthink spaghetti, lasagna, and pizza. Italian families arrived in the U. S at the beginning of the twentieth century, and mammas brought with them the skills and ingredient know how to fashion a whole new cuisine in spite of living in poverty and ostracization from