Connie Staccato Cooks Mafia Favorites

Aliens, marinara sauce, and Italian American culture? You’ll find them all and more in this collection of wisdom and stories in a cookbook.In Connie Staccato Cooks Mafia Favorites, you’ll get all of the above and more as author Connie Staccato mixes Italian home cooking with personal stories of compassion, humor, and food-as-love philosophy. Both a mafia cookbook and a meditation on nostalgia and family, Staccato’s memoir offers some great belly laughs, a lifetime worth of fit-for-a-Mafia-don recipes, and clever insights for tackling life’s wacky little surprises as they arise. Filled with heaping portions of charm and wit, Connie Staccato Cooks Mafia Favorites is more than just a funny Sicilian cookbook. It’s a celebration of everything that truly matters—love, family, and of course, really good food.