Marcella | movie | 2025 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

Marcella Hazan changed how we cook and eat Italian. Millions love her recipes — now hear her amazing story. | dG1feFMtSmczc0VGdkE

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00:00Italian cooking is very simple, but it's not easy.

00:09Marcella Hazan was the person who helped you transmit love to somebody through the kitchen.

00:14Julia Child has called her my mentor in all things Italian.

00:19She is to Italian cooking what Muhammad Ali is to boxing, the champ.

00:23Marcella Hazan, Marcella Hazan, Marcella Hazan.

00:27Most people in America had never really experienced Italian food like people eat in Italy.

00:34When I grew up, we didn't have extra virgin olive oil, we didn't have arugula, we didn't

00:38have radicchio.

00:39We didn't even know what risotto was.

00:41She unlocked one of the greatest joys in the world, which are the culinary pleasures of

00:46Italy.

00:47It was a revelation.

00:50The woman was an intelligent, trained scientist.

00:55I never cooked in my life until I married.

00:58I never boiled water if it was not in the beaker in the laboratory.

01:03Marcella realized that there had always been a cook inside her.

01:09She decides to begin teaching Italian cooking to American women.

01:14Marcella gets it all.

01:15She says, would you like to do a cookbook?

01:18A cookbook?

01:19I decided it was impossible because I don't write in English.

01:24And later said, well, if you want, I will translate.

01:30And in less than a year, we had produced a book, a book that made history.

01:39She was an absolute perfectionist.

01:41There was only one way of doing things.

01:43She has no qualms about saying if you're doing something wrong.

01:48And if she didn't feel something was right, she voiced it.

01:52People in power, especially in the food world, find very threatening a woman who has the

01:55guts to stand up for herself.

01:57I'm in awe of you.

02:00I always have been.

02:02To you, Marcella, and for all the good that you did to America's food, thank you.