The Cookbook That Helped Unite Italy | Local Aromas

Apparently, Italy's first food blogger was born in 1820. 😂

No Instagram. No YouTube. No email. He wasn't even a chef.

And at 71 years old, Pellegrino Artusi decided to self-publish “La Scienza in Cucina e l’Arte di Mangiar Bene” (Science in the Kitchen and the Art of Eating Well) when Italy itself had only been a unified country for 30 years.

This completely blew our minds!

In this episode, we talk about how Artusi asked people from around Italy to send him their recipes, tested them, shared their stories, and slowly created an enormous cooking community at a time when Italians didn't even necessarily think of themselves as Italian.

And then our conversation takes us into another cookbook we grew up with, Ada Boni's “Il Talismano della Felicità”, our great-grandmother's handwritten recipe notebook, the recipes we have inherited and changed over the years, and the ones we're now passing on to our own children and our Local Aromas Family.

Because maybe that's the real magic of a recipe.

Someone shares it with you. You make it yours. You change it a little. You cook it for someone you love. And eventually, it becomes part of somebody else's story.

And if you're ever afraid you're too old to start something new, remember Pellegrino Artusi.

71 years old. Nobody wanted to publish his idea. So he did it himself.

And more than 130 years later, we're still talking about him. ❤️

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