Pasta Grannies: Comfort Cooking: Traditional Family Recipes From Italy’s Best Home Cooks Vicky Bennison Book

Bring the warmth of an Italian kitchen to your home with Pasta Grannies: Comfort Cooking: Traditional Family Recipes From Italy’s Best Home Cooks — a lovingly compiled hardcover cookbook for home cooks, parents, teachers, and gift buyers who appreciate simple, soulful food. Perfect for anyone who wants to learn authentic, crowd-pleasing Italian dishes from the women who have kept these recipes alive for generations.

Title in this Set: Pasta Grannies: Comfort Cooking
Condition: BRAND NEW
Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9781784885243

Author and documentarian Vicky Bennison, known for the bestselling Pasta Grannies cookbook and the popular Pasta Grannies YouTube channel, curates 91 comfort-filled recipes and personal stories that celebrate heritage cooking. Bennison’s background as a travel writer and filmmaker gives this children’s-series-style storytelling a genuine, human touch — recipes come with context, regional detail, and the kind of practical tips only someone who’s spent years filming in Italian homes could provide.

What’s inside

This book is more than a pasta cookbook — it’s a book collection of family wisdom and seasonal cooking. Discover a range of dishes across chapters including:

• Pasta with meat, seafood, and vegetables — from rustic tagliatelle to simple weekday favorites.
• Pizzas, pastries and pies — comfort baking that showcases regional doughs and fillings.
• Rice and pulses — hearty risottos and legume-based sides that pair with pasta or stand alone.
• Dairy, herbs, nuts and spices — tips for using pantry staples to elevate each recipe.

Featured home cooks

Meet the grandmothers behind the recipes: 91-year-old Pina from Liguria teaches you chestnut gnocchi with walnut pesto, made with ingredients she grows around her home. Ninety-nine-year-old Marietta shares a special tagliatelle approach that’s less a strict recipe and more a reflection of her vegetable garden and the Calabrian seasons. These personal stories and step-by-step methods make authentic Italian food approachable, even for beginner cooks.

Why readers love this boxed set-style cookbook:

• Easy-to-follow, authentic recipes trusted by parents and home cooks.
• Heartfelt storytelling that preserves culinary traditions — ideal for classroom cultural lessons or family reading.
• Practical tips on ingredients, timings, and substitutions to suit modern kitchens.
• Beautiful hardcover format makes it a durable gift or keepsake.

Whether you're looking for bedtime reading that sparks kitchen creativity, an engaging gift set for a foodie, or a practical paperback alternative to everyday recipe searches, this hardcover edition is a timeless addition to any cookbook shelf. From an award-worthy YouTube series and a bestselling author, Pasta Grannies: Comfort Cooking is a celebration of food, family, and the simple rituals that bring people together — perfect for sharing at the table or passing down as a family heirloom.