Cooking is an art, but you eat it too.

- Marcella Hazan

In the Italian kitchen, ingredients are not treated as promising but untutored elements that need to be corrected through long and intricate manipula…

- Marcella Hazan

I don't cook 'concepts.' I use my head, but I cook from the heart, I cook for flavor.

- Marcella Hazan

I need to smell its smells, to hear its sounds, to see food in a pot that simmers, bubbles, sizzles. I enjoy the physical involvement of stirring, tu…

- Marcella Hazan

The Italian comes to his table with the same open heart with which a child falls into his mother's arms, with the same easy feeling of being in the r…

- Marcella Hazan

[On cooking:] What you keep out is as significant as what you put in.

- Marcella Hazan

Eating in Italy is essentially a family art, practiced for and by the family. The finest accomplishments of the home cook are not reserved like the g…

- Marcella Hazan

Not everyone in Italy may know how to cook, but nearly everyone knows how to eat. Eating in Italy is one more manifestation of the Italian's age-old …

- Marcella Hazan

And while other passions in your life may at some point begin to bank their fires, the shared happiness of good homemade food can last as long as we …

- Marcella Hazan