For nearly sixty years, Victor Hazan was married to cookbook author Marcella Hazan, who is credited with bringing Italian cuisine to mainstream America. Last month, Good Food host Evan Kleiman interviewed Victor on the 30th anniversary of “Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking.” In an outtake from that conversation, Victor shares a story of Marcella procuring a human head during World War II.
‘Alas poor Yorick’: The tale of Marcella Hazan’s search for a human skull
As her husband Victor shares, famed Italian cookbook author Marcella Hazan was obsessed with anatomy and searched for a skull during World War II to complete the human skeleton she was intent on assembling. Photo courtesy of Shutterstock.