Pasta Grannies: Comfort Cooking

Pasta Grannies: Comfort Cooking by Vicky Bennison is a warm, approachable Italian cookbook that brings the joy of home cooking straight to your kitchen, one generous dish at a time. Built around real kitchens and real lives, it’s as much about connection as it is about dinner.

Inside you’ll find recipes and stories from Italian grandmothers across the regions, from chestnut gnocchi with walnut pesto in Liguria to garden-led tagliatelle inspired by the changing seasons in Calabria. Alongside pasta, there are crowd-pleasing chapters on pizzas, pastries and pies, plus rice and pulses, dairy and herbs, nuts and spices—ideal for mixing and matching into a comforting spread.

Perfect for home cooks who love authentic Italian food, pasta making by hand, and cookbook storytelling with a strong sense of place. Scan the QR codes to watch the YouTube videos, then cook along.

Take a copy home and let these kitchens become part of yours.