Heart Shaped Tomatoes: Authentic Italian Cooking Recipes with Nonna Elda – Family Meals, Romantic Dinners & Holiday Gatherings

Illus. with color photographs. Half cloth & pictorial boards. First Edition. N.p.: 2021.

Heart-Shaped Tomatoes is a photo-driven cookbook about Elda Cristini, or Nonna, a 101-year-old Italian immigrant grandmother for whom cooking has remained a constant thread throughout her storied life. At 101, Elda still lives on her own, grows her own tomatoes and cooks them into a beautiful red sauce, can make pasta from scratch, and confidently pulls together a multi-course meal. The book uses recipes, photography, and personal essays as an entry point to examine themes of independence, generational knowledge, love, and family. Small bump to lower corners, otherwise very good.