Marcella Hazan, most influential Italian cook

Marcella Hazan made it her life

Cookbook author and teacher Marcella Hazan dies at 89.

FOR Marcella Hazan, Italian food wasn’t spaghetti and meatballs or pizza buried in cheese, and, in fact, never really existed as a simple meal on a red-checked tablecloth. The food of her native land was really the food of individual regions that through the ages had been independent, sometimes hostile, and certainly not prone to mimicking their enemies’ cuisine at the family dinner table.