A Brooklyn girl with a serious appetite for Italian cooking. In Ammazza!, Hillary Sterling, the celebrated chef behind New York’s Ci Siamo, shares more than 100 seasonal recipes shaped by her Jewish upbringing in Sheepshead Bay, years in some of the city’s finest kitchens and a lifelong love affair with Italian food.

Part cookbook, part culinary memoir, it’s filled with bold flavors, family traditions, clever techniques and plenty of encouragement to cook with confidence. A delicious reminder that the best meals rarely follow all the rules.