A wonderful, evocative memoir by the woman who first brought Italian cooking to Britain and fuelled a culinary revolution.

''Anyone who cooks should have Anna''s books, it is the simple truth'' Nigella Lawson

Born in Milan, Anna del Conte grew up in Italy in a gentler timeWhen war came to Italy everything changed: her family had to abandon their apartment and the city for the countryside, where the peasants still ate well, but life was dangerous... As a teenager, Anna became used to throwing herself into a ditch as the strafing planes flew over, and was imprisoned, twice.

Her story is informed and enlivened by the food and memories of her native land - from lemon granita to wartime risotto with nettles, from vitello tonnato to horsemeat roll, from pastas to porcini.

Anna arrived in England in 1949 to a culinary wasteland. She married an Englishman and stayed on, and while bringing up her children, she wrote books which inspired a new generation of cooksThis is a memoir of a life seen through food - each chapter rounded off with mouthwatering recipes.

Format Häftad Omfång 336 sidor Språk Engelska Förlag Vintage Publishing Utgivningsdatum 2010-08-05 ISBN 9780099505990