![]() ![]() She believes in cooking vegetables until they are limp, but not lifeless. ![]() He reported: "Marcella Hazan's cooking is traditional Italian - nothing nouveau. Everything was not natural." NPR's Scott Simon had visited Hazan in 2005 while she was teaching at the French Culinary Institute in Manhattan. And at the supermarket they were very dead. "The chicken, they were arriving from the farmer and they were alive. "I never saw a supermarket in Italy," she told NPR's Linda Wertheimer in a 2010 interview. A scientist by training, she began cooking after moving to the United States and finding that much American food was sold prepackaged at the supermarket. Marcella Hazan, the author of bestselling cookbooks that brought Italian food to America, died Sunday at age 89. ![]() Marcella Hazan and her husband, Victor, in the kitchen of their home in Longboat Key, Fla. ![]()
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