I loved, I lost, I made spaghetti : a memoir / Giulia Melucci.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Grand Central Pub., 2009.Edition: 1st edDescription: 464 p. (large print) ; 22 cmISBN:- 0446552321
- 9780446552325
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Large Print Book | Dr. James Carlson Library | Large Print NonFiction | 641.5945 M529 | Available | 33111005837865 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
From failure to fusilli, this deliciously hilarious read tells the story of Giulia Melucci's fizzled romances and the mouth-watering recipes she used to seduce her men, smooth over the lumps, and console herself when the relationships flamed out.
From an affectionate alcoholic, to the classic New York City commitment-phobe, to a hipster aged past his sell date, and not one, but two novelists with Peter Pan complexes, Giulia has cooked for them all. She suffers each disappointment with resolute cheer (after a few tears) and a bowl of pastina (recipe included) and has lived to tell the tale so that other women may go out, hopefully with greater success, and if that's not possible, at least have something good to eat.
Peppered throughout Giulia's delightful and often poignant remembrances are fond recollections of her mother's cooking, the recipes she learned from her, and many she invented on her own inspired by the men in her life. Readers will howl at Giulia's boyfriend-littered past and swoon over her irresistable culinary creations.
Includes index.
Antipasto -- Kit Fraser would prefer a drink -- My father -- The victory breakfast -- The Ethan Binder school of cooking -- Mitch Smith licked the plate -- Marcus Caldwell ate and ran -- From Sex and the city to nun -- Single-girl suppers -- Lachlan Martyn was passionate- about food -- Baci e abbracci a... -- Recipe index.
"A Brooklyn-based publicist's account of her relationships gone awry, and the food that sustained her through it all."--Provided by the publisher.