Assouline Carbone

Multi

• Published December 2024
• 248 pages
• Over 150 illustrations
• W 25 x L 33 x D 3 cm
• Hardcover
• English

Developed in close collaboration with the trio behind Major Food Group, CARBONE contains more than a dozen recipes from the restaurant that have never been shared before. Anecdotes and recollections from the restaurant's founders and inimitable characters give readers a compelling glimpse into the making of a New York City legend.

It's an early spring day in downtown Manhattan, and Mario Carbone, Jeff Zalaznick and Rich Torrisi are back in the neighborhood where it all began just over a decade ago. Here, at 181 Thompson Street, the newly formed trio wanted to harness the energy Rich and Mario had developed nearby at Torrisi Italian Specialties to breathe new life into a culinary style that few chefs with their pedigree thought worthy of devoting themselves to. The New York Times soon concluded that the three friends had succeeded in “reviving the hard-edged thrill of a genre that everyone else finds unsophisticated and a little embarrassing, while exposing the sophistication that was always lurking there”.