If You Like Italian Food,

  You Will Love Our Story~Cookbook !

  "A Pinch of This and A Pinch of That"

Is a Very Special Story And Cookbook of Treasured Recipes Highlighting The Best Times And Most Delicious Italian Food Served for 15 Years At Mama Lena's Italian Kitchen, One of Chicago's Most Favored Dining Spots!

This Special Story~Cookbook is a "Collector's Item" to 

Those Who Love Chicago and Chicago Memorabilia. 

It recounts an Era in Chicago Restaurants that no longer exists  as the world has become a corporately-owned phenomenon.

Explore The

 "Tried & True Old~Fashioned Way of Cooking Italian" 

The Simple and Enjoyable Way ~ 

 The Way Mama Lena Did It! 

Through "A Pinch of This and A Pinch of That"

Mama's Son, Salvino, and his wife, Margo, 

Have Made Italian Cooking So Very Easy for Everyone,

Even Those Who Have Never Cooked!

You'll feel like they are right next to you in your kitchen, as you read the 

easy-to-follow recipes, each preceded by a Special Story of the Restaurant, 

Mama Lena & Papa Frank and the Family, and followed by Serving Suggestions

to make the "perfect" Mama Lena's Evening in Your Home!

Booklist Magazine's Mark Knoblauch, March, 2000, stated,

"Mama Lena's attracted Celebrities and Cognoscenti to its twice~nightly Dinners.

The Food was so superior... that people always crowded into the tiny Dining Room! "

New City's Sam Weller, September, 2000, stated,

"Every so often a small independent publisher puts out a book so pure, so innocent, 

that no big New York publisher could ever come within a mile of  imitating it.

Thank God, for the Little Guy! "

PBS's City Talk Newspaper ~ Network Newspaper of PBS & WFMT ~ January, 2001

"Once again, Mama Lena's has been written up by Playboy,

receiving 1,000 calls for restaurant reservations in one month...

not bad for a restaurant that has been closed for 19 years! "

Don't miss this opportunity for You and Your Family to Experience

 The Warmth, The Passion for Food and Fun and  The Love 

that were served up nightly at

Mama Lena's Italian Kitchen and also find just what made 

that Era in Chicago Dining So Special! 

Enjoy!

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