Laura Schenone

At a Glance Laura Schenone won a James Beard Award for *A Thousand Years Over a Hot Stove*, the book that established her public standing and set the terms of her work in food writing. Her writing treats the kitchen as a site shaped by gender, family authority, and the rules handed down through households rather than institutions. She has said, “I never considered myself Italian because of the Italian patriarchy,” and that framing runs through her work: the kitchen, as she describes it, was formed by a female domestic culture that sat apart from the Italian side of her family. She has also said, “It was not my plan to go to Italy. I wanted a recipe, and I couldn't get what I wanted from Croatia.”

Signature

Laura's signature dishes include A Thousand Years Over a Hot Stove and The Lost Ravioli Recipes of Hoboken.

In Their Words “I came to the conclusion that when my family came to the U.S, they suddenly felt free to do what they wanted and to use ingredients that they wanted to use.” “I was raised in the female culture of the kitchen—and that was not part of the Italian side.”