Italian Recipes - An Italian Mama's Cookbook are recipes I gleamed from my mother when she was alive and I would help her in the kitchen prepare meals for our rather large Italian family. Yes, I have included her best Italian pasta recipes as well as her everyday Italian recipes too. I like chicken so I have included some of her best Italian chicken recipes and not to leave your sweet tooth lovers out, I put in some great Italian dessert recipes. Everything contained in this book are simple Italian recipes that anybody can make and serve proudly. Even if you are vegan, there are vegan Italian recipes too. While growing up in the 50s and 60s, I had you beat by a Roman mile...my mama cooked some of the most fantastic meals on the planet and passed down all her recipes to me. My family enjoyed some of the best pasta dishes...many you have never seen before...and mama taught me how to maximize every ounce of food so nothing went to waste. Today I still cook and feed large groups but I am no chef. I am a cook with special "mama" training, which in my opinion is the best training of all. I believe in being prudent and practical and also providing the best nutrition at the lowest cost. I offer throughout all of my books home economic tips as well as the best recipes I have used to put smile on people's faces the world over. Italian food can be very inexpensive to prepare and even the leftovers are fabulous so come and take a trip with me down culinary lane and I will show you how to "WOW" your family and guests. As we say in my family, "Mangiare per la felicita " (eat for happiness).