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# How Marcella Hazan published her first cookbook
- URL: https://www.cascadepbs.org/show/american-masters/extras/how-marcella-hazan-published-her-first-cookbook-akohov/
- Published: 2025-07-01T19:45:57.000Z
- Updated: 2026-05-26T16:34:31.000Z
- Description: Marcella Hazan wrote “The Classic Italian Cook Book” with her husband Victor translating.
- Author: Cascade PBS Staff
- Tags: American Masters, #ZZZ_Show_528da9a2-8dd6-4ae8-885a-d59d89b91574, #geo-us, #v1.7, #ZZZ_Extra_0382fa0b-bcaf-4aba-8089-f12b2b4bf2f1, #extra

In the early 70s, an editor reached out to Marcella Hazan to write a cookbook. Hesistant because she didn’t write in English, her husband Victor offered to help translate the book for her. Within a year, the two delivered “The Classic Italian Cook Book,” which is now considered “the most seminal Italian cookbook ever published in this country.”