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Teacher Giuliano Hazan shows us how to make his mother Marcella Hazan's simple and delicious macerated orange slices. All you need is some oranges, lemon and sugar!

In 1973, the Italian cookbook author Marcella Hazan published a recipe that was heard ‘round the world. It was a pasta sauce, from her first book "The Classic Italian Cook Book," with just three primary ingredients—vine-ripened tomatoes, good butter and one medium-sized onion. The instructions ...

One of Marcella Hazan’s most interesting recipes is her upside-down artichokes, also known as Roman-style artichokes. Watch teacher and writer Giuliano Hazan make it here and level up your artichoke game.

The first time Marcella Hazan cooked a full Italian meal, she did it in Forest Hills, Queens. Hazan moved to New York with Victor, her Italian-born American husband, in 1955. She knew no English, but she taught herself the language by watching TV—especially Brooklyn Dodgers ...

One of Marcella Hazan’s most famous recipes is a simple roast chicken with lemons. Watch chef Shola Olunloyo demonstrate the delicious dish.

Leon Botstein is the President of Bard College, a position he has served since 1975, and serves as music director and principal conductor of the American Symphony Orchestra (ASO), founder and music director of The Orchestra Now (TŌN), artistic codirector of Bard SummerScape and the ...

Writer Clover Hope reflects on how artists featured in In The Making Season 3 are using design, photography, mixed media and fashion to reclaim overlooked histories and reimagine the future through personal and cultural storytelling. Norman Teague rarely knows what type of furniture he’s building ...

House of Aama: Threads of Legacy 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. Jamal Ademola’s director statement “Healing comes when the individual ...

Scholar Roger Berkowitz shares how Hannah Arendt saw civil disobedience as a collective and political act that renews democracy by holding power accountable to justice and constitutional principles.  "Civil disobedience arises when a significant number of citizens have become convinced either that the normal channels ...