Rosemary and Bitter Oranges: Growing Up in a Tuscan Kitchen
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Genres: Biographies & Memoirs, Cookbooks, Food & Wine, Travel
Book Type: Hardcover
Author:
Genres: Biographies & Memoirs, Cookbooks, Food & Wine, Travel
Book Type: Hardcover
Helpful Score: 3
I throughly enjoyed this book. I expected it to be a boring book about family recipes but it didn't turn out that way at all.
This is a rare glimpse into an Italian childhood and the family she loved. It was entertaining and interesting. The vingenetes were very vivid. There is much humor like the time she talked her brother into putting the leftover dinner wine in her grandmothers prize chickens water!
I especially liked how she had wonderful famiy recipes and shared the place they had in her family and childhood but we very pleasantly wove them into her stories. Where the focus wasn't just on the recipe or the memory. The just seem to flow together.
A very good read, even if you aren't into italian cooking!
This is a rare glimpse into an Italian childhood and the family she loved. It was entertaining and interesting. The vingenetes were very vivid. There is much humor like the time she talked her brother into putting the leftover dinner wine in her grandmothers prize chickens water!
I especially liked how she had wonderful famiy recipes and shared the place they had in her family and childhood but we very pleasantly wove them into her stories. Where the focus wasn't just on the recipe or the memory. The just seem to flow together.
A very good read, even if you aren't into italian cooking!
