Peace, Love, and Pasta
From award-winning chef and Food Network personality Scott Conant, a cookbook of restaurant-quality Italian meals that you can make easily in your home kitchen
Thirty-five years into an illustrious career of restaurant openings across the country, widespread acclaim, and frequent appearances on the Food Network’s Chopped and many other shows, Scott Conant has returned home to create his most personal cookbook yet. Meals cooked from simple, fresh ingredients were staples of Conant’s childhood in a New England family with roots in Southern Italy. From his grandparents’ garden to the dinner table, he learned early on to appreciate the nuances of different flavors and ingredients, and the strong connection between food and family.
Focusing on these foods Conant grew up with and the ones he makes for his loved ones today, Peace, Love, and Pasta compiles simple, fresh, and flavorful Italian recipes for the home cook to bring to their own family’s table. These recipes are built on the art of cooking for love, fascination with flavors and ingredients, and the simple pleasures of taste and conviviality.
Scott Conant is an award-winning chef known for his subtly masterful iteration of Italian cooking. Having previously opened New York restaurants Alto and Scarpetta, Conant currently has restaurants in Phoenix (Mora Italian), Las Vegas (Masso Osteria), Los Angeles (The Ponte), and a steakhouse in the Catskills (Cellaio). He launched Sprezza Foods, his own line of essential ingredients and wines, in 2018, and has been a regular judge on the Food Network’s Chopped since the program launched in 2009. He is the author of three previous cookbooks and lives in Arizona with his wife and two daughters