Two Meatballs: Pino And Mark Go Mano A Mano In The Italian Kitchen

The official companion to the 13-part PBS series: two impassioned chefs resolve their differences in a cookbook that will redefine Italian cooking.
What happens when you match a temperamental Tuscan who's reverent about Italian cooking traditions with a feisty Jewish guy from Queens who breaks all the rules? "Two Meatballs" pits these colorful chefs in a ladle-to-ladle match that proves there isn't just one way to cook Italian food.
Pino Luongo and Mark Strausman differ in their opinions about everything from spaghetti and meatballs to the merits of canned tomatoes, and they have the recipes to prove it. In their easy-to-use cookbook, each presents his own specialties, creating a treasury of classic Italian and Italian-American dishes, and the reader will reap the benefits of their delightful culinary competition. With recipes like Lobster Fra Diavolo (Mark) and Risotto with Quail (Pino), this will prove the one Italian cookbook you can't live without. Catch Pino and Mark in action on their PBS Italian cooking show, airing in the fall of 2006. 24 pages of color illustrations.