Don Pintabona's The Shared Table is a cookbook designed for casual dining with family and friends. With its focus on cooking and community, The Shared Table takes us on a culinary adventure. Recipes correspond to chapters of Pintabona's life and are infused with his recollections, from his earliest days in the kitchen, frying meatballs with his Italian relatives; to his festive block parties in Brooklyn; to his travels, whether to the front of the restaurant range or to a remote locale in search of new ideas and flavors. Pintabona writes about the hospitality he's received and about how food plays a vital role in bringing people together in harmony and friendship, something he pondered deeply while serving food to workers at the World Trade Center site in the aftermath of September 11. Here he shares those reflections on how a community can demonstrate the best of the human spirit.Brimming with striking food and travel photographs and with family snapshots, this cookbook inspires us to prepare meals for gatherings of those we love - and exemplifies the unshakable bonds forged when food is shared at the table. Read Less