Marcella Hazan changed how we cook and eat Italian. Millions love her recipes — now hear her amazing story. | dG1feFMtSmczc0VGdkE
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00:00Italian cooking is very simple, but it's not easy.
00:09Marcella Hazan was the person who helped you transmit love to somebody through the kitchen.
00:14Julia Child has called her my mentor in all things Italian.
00:19She is to Italian cooking what Muhammad Ali is to boxing, the champ.
00:23Marcella Hazan, Marcella Hazan, Marcella Hazan.
00:27Most people in America had never really experienced Italian food like people eat in Italy.
00:34When I grew up, we didn't have extra virgin olive oil, we didn't have arugula, we didn't
00:38have radicchio.
00:39We didn't even know what risotto was.
00:41She unlocked one of the greatest joys in the world, which are the culinary pleasures of
00:46Italy.
00:47It was a revelation.
00:50The woman was an intelligent, trained scientist.
00:55I never cooked in my life until I married.
00:58I never boiled water if it was not in the beaker in the laboratory.
01:03Marcella realized that there had always been a cook inside her.
01:09She decides to begin teaching Italian cooking to American women.
01:14Marcella gets it all.
01:15She says, would you like to do a cookbook?
01:18A cookbook?
01:19I decided it was impossible because I don't write in English.
01:24And later said, well, if you want, I will translate.
01:30And in less than a year, we had produced a book, a book that made history.
01:39She was an absolute perfectionist.
01:41There was only one way of doing things.
01:43She has no qualms about saying if you're doing something wrong.
01:48And if she didn't feel something was right, she voiced it.
01:52People in power, especially in the food world, find very threatening a woman who has the
01:55guts to stand up for herself.
01:57I'm in awe of you.
02:00I always have been.
02:02To you, Marcella, and for all the good that you did to America's food, thank you.