"As a young girl in Italy, I recall how young brides looked forward to receiving this cookbook,"
"I first heard Ada's name in a conversation with Samin Nosrat when we were working on her book Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat, "
"The beauty of the title spoke to me and made me want to learn —"
Ada Boni was born in Rome in 1881, when the city had recently become Italy's capital and national unification was only two decades old. Regional Italian cuisines remained distinct, and Boni helped assemble those traditions by publishing recipes from across Italy in the monthly home-economics magazine Preziosa, which she launched with her husband Enrico Boni. Boni compiled Il Talismano della Felicità, first edition containing 882 dishes, which became an instant classic. Chefs such as Lidia Bastianich and Marcella Hazan credited the work with shaping culinary practice and preserving homeland flavors. An earlier 1950s English translation failed, and publisher Michael Szczerban pursued a new English edition beginning in 2013.
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