Hi, I'm Ashley. An Italian girl, born and raised in New York — which is just a complicated way of saying I think pasta is a food group and I argue about red sauce on the internet.
I started cooking the way every Italian grandmother started cooking — by being told to. Decades later, the only thing that's changed is the audience. For less than the price of a sad takeout salad, you can meet me in the kitchen and learn every recipe I've ever loved.
This is the cookbook I wish I'd had at twenty: warm, a little chaotic, and unreasonably good at dinner.
"I bought this on a whim and now my husband thinks I went to culinary school. The pastina alone paid for the cookbook three times over. Ashley writes the way your funniest friend texts — except every recipe actually works."