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Paul Sorvino and wife publish Italian Cookbook with nod to Goodfellas

If you didn’t have a love affair with Italian food before, watching Paulie Cicero (played by Paul Sorvino) and his mob family in the 1990 blockbuster Goodfellas cook dinner in prison would have been enough to start. Seeing Sorvino slice through garlic with a razor blade “so thin that it used to liquify in the pan with just a little oil”, as narrator Henry Hill (played by Ray Liotta) tells it, was mesmerizing. The visuals and the description made our mouths water. After 27 years of salivating over Sorvino’s sauce, it’s about time he grace us with the gift of his cooking know-how through an Italian cookbook. Pinot, Pasta, and Parties (Available April 18, 2017; $30) is Paul’s first cookbook, created in efforts with wife, Emmy Award Winning TV and radio host, Dee Dee Sorvino. “We wanted to share our recipes, experiences, and a glimpse into our happy life together,” they write in the foreword. “Each chapter focuses on an aspect…