Travel Writing
Synopsis
L’appetito vien mangiando! – Appetite comes while you are eating.
Vicky arrives in Tuscany to study the language and culture of Italy, but soon falls in love with charismatic chef Gianfranco and starts to learn the art of Italian cooking in his trattoria. On Sunday nights, after benches are stacked on tables, they explore the countryside by car, passing glassy lakes and ancient hill towns.
This colourful and intoxicating gastro-memoir takes you behind the scenes of romantic restaurants and bars in Tuscany, Umbria, Elba and Perugia. Interspersed with recipes, humour and heartbreak, it will leave you entranced and with a hankering for tagliatelle and truffles.
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‘Set in the steamy trattoria kitchens of Italy… we glimpse life behind the kitchen doors: simmering resentments, sexual tension and Pavarotti-esque diva antics... Her evocative descriptions bring alive everything from...
St Christopher’s Beds & Bars Live-Your-Life e-zine, August 2010
‘a thoroughly addictive tale of love and food in Italy... a lifestyle of fine food and fast romance in Tuscany... abundant (and tasty) recipes throughout the chapters. Readers should however...
Sixtyplussurfers website, August 2010
‘This colourful and intoxicating gastro-memoir takes you behind the scenes of romantic restaurants and bars in Tuscany, Umbria, Elba and Perugia. Interspersed with recipes, humour and heartbreak, it will leave...
The Bookseller, 12th February 2010
‘Ideal summer holiday reading.’
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