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That guy in real life also published an interesting cookbook. It has some good anecdotes in it. Some of the recipes are "make do" and for ah...larger groups...I guess for when they had to "go to the mattresses" in a hideout or something.

The Wise Guy Cookbook.

Not a specific recipe, but a really great book.
A friend of mine owns it and he says he can only agree with the reviews on amazon. There are really nice recipes for "on-the-go"-cooking as well for greater occasions. Plus, you can find small pro-tips, which you'd otherwise only know through long cooking experience. According to him, 15$ is a steal for "the best italian cookbook ever."

It says this in the introduction: "Some mainland Italians scoff at Sicilian food - they call it "peasant" food. They're right. There were and still are lots of "peasants" in Sicily. The food has to be cheap, fill you up, and hopefully taste good. A lot of dishes can be made very fast if you want, or cooked all day if you're an at-home mom or out of a job. [...] The best sicilian food is very simple, usually made from a small number of ingredients. I think that's part of what makes it so good."

Older one... Not from a TV show but sort of from a movie.. the movie Goodfellas.. it was based around the story of real life mobster Henry Hill and he came out with a cookbook called The Wiseguy Cookbook. Food and cooking are in several scenes in the movie and the recipes for most are in the book.

Here is the Amazon link

The Wise Guy Cookbook: My Favorite Recipes From My Life as a Goodfella to Cooking on the Run https://www.amazon.com/dp/0451207068/ref=cm_sw_r_apan_glt_fabc_HFXQNE50VX4626QN4VQN?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1

If anybody wants the recipe let me know, adapted it from Henry Hill's excellent Wiseguy Cookbook.

You’re welcome!. The food prep was real. Additionally, Scorsese used to have his mother cook for the cast and crew occasionally during his shoots.

Hill also had restaurants in New York and New Jersey before he died, and an on-and-off substance abuse problem, that was part of the cause of his his heart failure. His legacy lives on in his recipes.

Henry Hill (from Goodfellas)

wrote a cookbook.

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https://www.amazon.com/Wise-Guy-Cookbook-Favorite-Goodfella/dp/0451207068

Once he entered Witness Protection, though, Hill found himself in places where prosciutto was impossible to get and gravy was something you put on mashed potatoes. So he learned to fake it when necessary (for example, Romano with white pepper took the place of real pecorino-siciliano cheese), and wherever he found himself, Hill managed to keep good Italian food on the table. He still brings this flair for improvisation to his cooking. No recipe is set in stone. And substitutions are listed in case you need them for these recipes and many more:

Mom’s Antipasto • Sunday Gravy (Meat Sauce) • Cheater’s Chicken Stock • Striped Bass for Paulie • Fat Larry’s Pizza Dough • Henry’s Kickback Antipasti Hero • Sicilian Easter Bread with Colored Eggs • Clams Casino • Osso Buco • Oven Penitentiary Sauce with Sausage • Michael’s Favorite Ziti with Meat Sauce

FWIW, I learned to cook what my parents cooked first, then I went to Italian-American (spaghetti with red sauce, then more, using Henry Hill's cookbook called The Wiseguy Cookbook, which is actually better than it looks), then onto French which was a big step.

Start small, and learn how to spice properly. Then once you start getting good, move onto cooking completely from scratch. Then start making homemade stocks. Try different ethnic cuisines. Once you get the basic theory of different cuisine down, you'll be able to experiment. At that point, get The Flavor Bible. That's really advanced. If you take to cooking, you will love this book.