How to Use a Meat Cleaver: Secrets and Recipes from a Mob Family's Kitchen

By Lana Graziano, Jennifer Graziano, Renee Graziano

Book Overview

? Food this good should be illegal. ? ? "Mob Wives," VH1's wildly successful hit show, follows the lives of six women affiliated with the mob. Now, show creator and Executive Producer Jennifer Graziano, star Renee Graziano, and their restaurateur sister, Lana Graziano, reveal their best-kept secrets yet. ? The Grazianos invite you into their world but this time through the kitchen door, with this full color cookbook featuring 100 of their favorite and most-coveted family recipes. From Lana's famous meatballs to Sunday Gravy to Lobster Arriagiatta, the secret recipes are on the table. Plus, the book is spiced throughout with personal never-before-told stories that will let you get to know the most famous real mob family a little better. ? Experience the Grazianos' lives from inside their kitchen where food and family are never far apart. Funny, outrageous, sentimental, and always authentic, the Grazianos leave you with the skills to talk the talk, cook pasta like there's no tomorrow, stir up a mean marinara-and use that meat cleaver to back it up.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0399166602
• ISBN13: 9780399166600
• Release Date: February 2014
• Publisher: TarcherPerigee
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.4" x 0.7" x 7.7"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 12 and higher