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Writer Giuliano Hazan demonstrates his mother's meatballs and tomatoes. Marcella's meatballs were a classic in the household - a dish that Giuliano would bring to school in a thermos for lunch.

Four decades ago, Janis Ian had every reason to believe her career was over. She hadn’t scored a single significant hit since “At Seventeen” a full decade earlier, and her powerful record company, Columbia, refused to issue the album she had just spent two years ...

Writer, editor and professor Ian Buruma explores Hannah Arendt's evolving views on Jewish identity, political belonging and moral responsibility. Hannah Arendt was not right about everything. How could she be? Adolf Eichmann, whose trial in Jerusalem was the subject of her most famous and—to some ...

One of Marcella Hazan’s most famous recipes is a simple tomato sauce with onion and butter. Watch chef April Bloomfield make it here. See the full recipe on the American Masters website.

Norman Teague: Love Reigns Supreme is part of In The Making, a documentary shorts series from American Masters and Firelight Media follows emerging cultural icons on their journeys to becoming masters of their artistic disciplines. Adewole A. Abioye's director statement For Norman Teague, it first ...

Marcella Hazan introduced classic Italian ingredients to America, including extra virgin olive oil and sundried tomatoes. She also introduced balsamic vinegar to the U.S., which she lived to regret for its overuse in cooking.

In 1969, Marcella Hazan enrolled in a cooking class taught by Grace Zia Chu. Madame Chu decided to take a sabbatical on the first day of class, and with the other students’ encouragement, Marcella stepped in to teach the students Italian cooking instead. Thus began ...

In the early 70s, an editor reached out to Marcella Hazan to write a cookbook. Hesistant because she didn’t write in English, her husband Victor offered to help translate the book for her. Within a year, the two delivered “The Classic Italian Cook Book,” which ...

Marcella Hazan lived an improbably eventful life. An immigrant woman trained as a scientist, she never set foot in a kitchen until she married and moved to America in the 1950s. A childhood injury had left her with an injured right arm, a challenge for ...

Hannah Arendt was a German-born political theorist and philosopher best known for her influential works on totalitarianism, authority and the nature of evil. Forced to flee Nazi Germany as a Jewish refugee, her time as a political prisoner and refugee during World War II informed ...