Cooking with My Sisters: One Hundred Years of Family ...

ADRIANA TRIGIANIb/bis an award-winning playwright, television writer, and documentary filmmaker. The author of the bestselling novelsiBig Stone Gap, Big Cherry Holler, Milk Glass Moon, Lucia, Lucia/i, andiThe Queen of the Big Time/i, Trigiani has written the screenplay for the movieiBig Stone Gap/i, which she will also direct. She lives in New York City with her husband and daughter.brbrbrMARY TRIGIANI is a consultant and lecturer on issues driving authenticity in leadership. An expert message crafter -- for business leaders just-crowned to well-seasoned -- Mary's own message emerges in the new book she has written with her sister, bestselling novelist Adriana Trigiani. iCOOKING WITH MY SISTERS: ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF FAMILY RECIPES FROM BARI TO BIG STONE GAP/i, a memoir/cookbook, is a true story about the power of cooking to nourish and sustain the traditions of an Italian-American family aimed at leaving the world a better place. Mary shows how a visit back to unvarnished family experiences and values can help unearth one's authentic voice -- something Mary believes is essential not only to effective communicating but to compelling leadership as well. She lives in San Francisco.My four sisters and I love to read and we love to entertain. This book shares the Trigiani family treasure that inspires both passions: the recipes that were handed down to us and the stories that have sustained and enriched us. Like many other women of our generation, we learned to cook by watching our mothers and our grandmothers who tapped the ancient roots of three Italian regions while adapting their recipes using American innovation and ingredients. Recipes and techniques were to be shared among us, but never outside the family--until now.iCooking with My Sisters/ibrings you into our family kitchen. Here are our recipes and our stories.iBuon appetito!/ibr-From the Introduction by Adriana TrigianiFor the Trigian