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Chargement... The Food of Love (2004)par Anthony Capella
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Lovely read! There is something about Italian food, Italian country side, and Rome that always leaves me spellbound. This book took it to the crescendo. ( ) NOt much of a plot here although the cover promises much. The book starts off well but meanders a bit before getting to the end. However it takes reader on a the great culinary journey of the Italian cuisine which makes for a fascinating read. The author does a good job of using the plot as a medium to introduce the italian palate to the reader. Think Cyrano de Bergerac helping Christian de Neuvillette woo Roxane, but instead of wooing her with words, he cooks for her and you have the premise of this book. Bruno is in love with Laura, an American exchange art history student in Rome, but in his shyness he believes he's not worthy of her. Unbeknownst to her, he helps his friend Tomasso, a waiter woo her, by cooking amazing and inventive meals for her and letting Tommaso take credit for the work. What ensues is a comedy of errors and descriptions of some incredible Italian dishes that will leave the reader salivating and craving Italian food. The scenes between Laura, Tomasso and Bruno are pretty bland and I found myself just skimming, until the author starts describing ingredients, the preparation and the taste of the food. That's where his genius lay. He took us through a culinary journey through Italy. He also generously included some recipes at the back of the book that I am going to try. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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Laura Patterson is an American exchange student in Rome who, fed up with being inexpertly groped by her young Italian beaus, decides there's only one sure-fire way to find a sensual man: date a chef. Then she meets Tomasso, who's handsome, young -- and cooks in the exclusive Templi restaurant. Perfect. Except, unbeknownst to Laura, Tomasso is in fact only a waiter at Templi -- it's his shy friend Bruno who is the chef. But Tomasso is the one who knows how to get the girls, and when Laura comes to dinner he persuades Bruno to help him with the charade. It works: the meal is a sensual feast, Laura is utterly seduced and Tomasso falls in lust. But it is Bruno, the real chef who has secretly prepared every dish Laura has eaten, who falls deeply and unrequitedly in love. A delicious tale of Cyrano de Bergerac-style culinary seduction, but with sensual recipes instead of love poems. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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