Leone's Italian Cookbook- "Seasoning is an Art..."
"Seasoning is an art which goes with good cooking. Spices are necessary, but even more important is knowing what seasoning goes best with a certain food. This comes only with experience." Gene Leone Mama Luise Leone. My mother too mastered the art of seasoning. She could, magically it seemed, create a depth of flavor from the simplest of ingredients and from her spice cabinet she could pull a vast array of both everyday and exotic flavors. She would have loved to sit down with Mama Luisa Leone, to whom this book is lovingly dedicated, and happily swapped recipes. This cookbook held a special place in my Moms heart. Leone's Italian Cookbook, by Gene Leone, was published in 1967 by Harper & Row, New York, NY. It is a compilation of his mothers recipes from their family restaurant Leone's which was in the theater district of NYC from 1906 through 1959 before finally being sold to Restaurant Associates group. It was operated for anot