santaguida

Learn the secrets of authentic Italian home cooking, passed down through generations, love, and a passion for good food, as you cook your way through 100 comforting recipes.

Distilling the episodic knowledge Eva Santaguida and Harper Alexander share on their popular Italian cooking YouTube channel, Pasta Grammar (@PastaGrammar), The Italian Family Kitchenshares how to make uncompromisingly authentic Italian recipes while also putting the food into the greater context of the Italian culinary landscape.

Learn how to make favorite classics, discover new and surprising dishes, acquire hands-on Italian kitchen skills, get actionable tips on how to source the right ingredients or find substitutes, and learn how to put it all together into memorable, lifestyle-fitting meals. ​In The Italian Family Kitchen you’ll find:

• 100 straightforward, delicious, and comforting recipes from all over Italy
• Recipes organized by course, including Fritti (fried appetizers and street food), Bread and Pizza, Ragù, Pasta, Riso (rice), Secondo (second courses), Contorno (side dishes), and Dolce (desserts) ​
• Basic recipes for making fresh egg and semolina pastas, potato gnocchi, simple tomato sauce, and besciamella
• How to stock your Italian kitchen​
• Stunning photography throughout​

Experience the real food of Italy, just as a lucky guest would witness in a family kitchen in Italy.

Evelina (Eva) Santaguida was born and raised in Calabria, Italy. She learned how to cook in the best environment possible: a small Italian village where no restaurant survives because everyone’s Nonna is the best chef in town! Cooking remained her passion as she started her own Italian Language School in Umbria before meeting and marrying her American husband, Harper Alexander, and moving to the United States with him.

Harper Alexander worked as a cinematographer in Hollywood before meeting Eva. She immediately started sharing the food of her country with him, and he was shocked at just how different (and better!) it was from the ＂Italian＂ food he thought he knew. A passion for food runs in his family. Besides himself being a master of North Carolina-style barbecue, his father, Max Alexander, who lives in Rome, was a contestant on MasterChef Italia and has been dubbed ＂the most famous American in Italy＂ by Italian newspapers.